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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
	Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:28:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060301172816.GA4090@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603011814.43573.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > The thing about it being .git/refs/heads/svn/xyzzy is that then you can do
> > 
> > 	git checkout svn/xyzzy
> > 
> > and start modifying it. Which is exactly against the point: the thing is 
> > _not_ a branch and you must _not_ commit to it.
> > 
> > It's much more like a tag: it's a pointer to the last point of an 
> > svn-import.
> 
> Isn't it the same with tracked branches of a remote git repo?
> With this reasoning, all heads that git-clone clones aside from the
> special "master" should not be under .git/refs/heads, but better
> under .git/refs/remotes/<remoteRepoName>/ ?
> 
> <remoteRepoName> is "origin" in the case of git-clone, so .git/remotes/origin
> would contain
>  URL: http://host/repo.git
>  Pull: master:remotes/origin/master
> 
> Then there would not be the need for the confusing special branch "origin"
> after cloning, as namespaces are separate.

This is a really good idea.  It certainly would prevent polluting the
heads namespace.  And its a lot easier to explain to someone than the
mapping in the Pull line usually is.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27 17:59 git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 18:46 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 18:55   ` Jan Harkes
2006-02-27 19:24     ` Eric Wong
2006-02-28  0:25       ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-28  0:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-28  0:58           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01  6:51           ` Eric Wong
2006-03-01  9:40             ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 15:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 16:07                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 16:24                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 17:14                     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 17:28                       ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-03-01 17:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 18:06                         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 18:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 20:26                             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:28                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 19:11                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-01 20:54                           ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:40                           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01 23:23                             ` Carl Worth
2006-03-01 23:43                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 21:07                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-03-19 19:12               ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-19 19:35                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-19 19:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 19:04   ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: tell the user to not modify git-svn-HEAD directly Eric Wong
2006-02-27 19:34   ` git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:27     ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 20:47       ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:55         ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: correct commit example in manpage Eric Wong

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