# Re: [PATCH 2/5] refs: make `is_pseudoref_syntax()` stricter 2 messages from 2024-03-15 to 2024-03-21. Participants: eugenio gigante, Patrick Steinhardt. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/61126 ## eugenio gigante, 2024-03-15 10:05 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] refs: make `is_pseudoref_syntax()` stricter Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFJh0PSRrz%3DWYvuXgFGER6_E5qshVKSWNxBDgVo6GcCGfFDK8A%40mail.gmail.com ``` On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:51:52 +0100 Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > We also have consider that there may be alternate implementations of Git > that would only know to handle the old layout. Those tools would be > broken in case we did such a migration, but they would be broken anyway > if the bisect was started via Git and not via the tool. The first implementations that come to my mind are Jgit and libgit2. I took a look at these two and apparently there is no support for git-bisect. Maybe you are not referring to those. Also, do we care about several GUIs for git? Eugenio ``` ## Patrick Steinhardt, 2024-03-21 13:09 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] refs: make `is_pseudoref_syntax()` stricter Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ZfwxdiF2RPS23zAl%40tanuki In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:05:41AM +0100, eugenio gigante wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:51:52 +0100 Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > > We also have consider that there may be alternate implementations of Git > > that would only know to handle the old layout. Those tools would be > > broken in case we did such a migration, but they would be broken anyway > > if the bisect was started via Git and not via the tool. > > The first implementations that come to my mind are Jgit and libgit2. > I took a look at these two and apparently there is no support for git-bisect. > Maybe you are not referring to those. I'm basically referring to everything that has wider use out there and that knows to access Git repositories. I don't know about all the implementations out there and whether they do or don't support bisections. If they don't then this is great, because it makes it a ton easier for us to argue why the proposed refactoring is okay to do. > Also, do we care about several GUIs for git? Many users do use graphical frontends, so we likely should investigate how they'd behave, yes. Patrick ```