From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refs
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:18:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005021833.GC10818@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286108511-55876-3-git-send-email-tom@dbservice.com>
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Remote helpers such as those for svn may chose to save the Git SHA1 -> Subversion
> revision mapping as notes attached to the commits (as opposed to strings in the
> commit message itself). The helper would need to update the notes on each fetch,
> but the user should not be bothered by the presence of that ref. The remote
> helper can update the notes tree through fast-import and then inform Git core
> that it should silently update the notes ref.
What is the advantage of this approach over having fast-import update
the notes ref (but not the others) on its own?
Curious,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-03 11:33 [RFC] New type of remote helpers Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list' Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-05 2:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-07 21:17 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/6] Allow more than one keepfile in the transport Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-05 2:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refs Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-05 2:18 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] Rename get_mode() to decode_tree_mode() and export it Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-05 2:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] Introduce the git fast-import-helper Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-03 15:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 15:45 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-03 15:53 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 17:39 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-03 23:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 6/6] Add git-remote-svn Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-05 2:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 13:56 ` [RFC] New type of remote helpers Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 15:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 17:07 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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