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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Kousik Sanagavarapu <five231003@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Hariom Verma <hariom18599@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/t6300: introduce test_bad_atom()
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:09:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqttro787y.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy1h078tf.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:56:28 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> +	case "$1" in
>> +	head) ref=refs/heads/main ;;
>> +	 tag) ref=refs/tags/testtag ;;
>> +	 sym) ref=refs/heads/sym ;;
>> +	   *) ref=$1 ;;
>> +	esac
>
> Somehow this indirection makes the two examples we see below harder
> to understand.  ... It does not help that both 'head' and
> 'sym' refer to a local branch ...

Ah, this "sym" thing is a (rather unnatural) symbolic ref inside
refs/heads/ hierarchy, so the naming makes halfway sense.  As it is
also used in test_atom, I no longer find it all that much disturbing.

Everything else I said in my review still stands, I would think.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-20 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-20 19:05 [PATCH 0/2] Add mailmap support to ref-filter Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-20 19:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] t/t6300: introduce test_bad_atom() Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-20 22:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-20 23:09     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-09-20 23:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-21 18:57     ` Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-20 19:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] ref-filter: add mailmap support Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-25 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Add mailmap support to ref-filter Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-25 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] t/t6300: cleanup test_atom Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-25 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] t/t6300: introduce test_bad_atom Kousik Sanagavarapu
2023-09-25 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ref-filter: add mailmap support Kousik Sanagavarapu

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