Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5

[Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

One other thought.  One of the reasons why I used "dev" and not
"ext4_for_linus" in my git request-pull command line was because that
several months ago I had created a branch called ext4_for_linus, and I
hadn't gotten around to deleting it, so I figured I'd just use "dev"
instead, since it was non-ambiguous.

If there is a case where there is both tag and a branch with the same
name, it might be a good idea for request-pull not just to issue a
warning, since the user might not notice the warning, but to just
abort --- and make the user explicitly type refs/tags/ext4_for_linus
or refs/heads/ext4_for_linus.

Most of the time if the user ignores the warning about the ambiguity,
it's not such a big deal, but in the case of a pull-request, he or she
is going to be possibly embarassing themself publically, so it might
be better to explicitly list the reason why a non-qualified refname is
ambiguous and force the user to pick the right one.

It's a minor point, and usually I double check the commit id in the
pull request just to be sure, so it might be considered too much of
coddling the user, but it might be a good safety check to add.

						- Ted