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.
next prev parent 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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