From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD are really special.
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:08:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189181313.30308.97.camel@koto.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4wu67qs.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 04:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This patch brings in a new world order by introducing a backward
> incompatible change. When the string the user gave us does not
> contain any slash, we do not apply the first entry (i.e.
> directly underneath .git/ without any "refs/***") unless the
> name consists solely of uppercase letters or an underscore,
> thereby ignoring .git/master. The ones we often use, such as
> HEAD and ORIG_HEAD are not affected by this change.
It seems to me that instead of introducing an incompatible (but probably
useful) change, a sensible option would be to have the ambiguous
reference be an error instead of a warning. One shouldn't be encouraged
to use names in .git that conflict with stuff in refs/heads anyway.
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keith.packard@intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 21:48 rebase from ambiguous ref discards changes Keith Packard
2007-09-06 22:37 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 23:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 2:58 ` Keith Packard
2007-09-07 6:55 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 11:21 ` [PATCH] HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD are really special Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 12:36 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-09-07 12:42 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 21:04 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 22:20 ` Alex Riesen
2007-09-07 16:03 ` Keith Packard
2007-09-07 16:08 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2007-09-07 16:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-07 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 21:53 ` Carl Worth
2007-09-07 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
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