From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems setting up bare repository (git 1.5.3.3)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:17:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001231714.GB5556@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqbisae6.wl%cworth@cworth.org>
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:06:09PM -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> Another example is "refs/heads". I avoided this partially by inly
> documenting how to push all branches with "--all", but I'd much rather
> be able to say that the user could git push URL branch
> another-branch..." or "git push URL --all" for convenience. Finally,
> git-push itself spews quite a bit of output with "refs/heads" in it
> that I don't think is useful at all. For talking with the user, git
> should say "branch master" not "refs/heads/master".
I'd be nervous about skipping discussion of the refs/ namespace. Sure,
introduce branch heads and tags on their own first, but you've got to
mention the rest pretty early on. Eventually anyone can find themselves
with a tags, heads, and remotes with the same names, and then it's easy
to get stuck if you don't have a way to disambiguate.
And, really, it doesn't take that much space to explain this stuff.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 21:46 Problems setting up bare repository (git 1.5.3.3) Barry Fishman
2007-10-01 22:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-01 23:06 ` Carl Worth
2007-10-01 23:17 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-10-01 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-01 23:47 ` Carl Worth
2007-10-01 23:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-02 9:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-02 13:54 ` Barry Fishman
2007-10-02 17:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-02 19:54 ` Barry Fishman
2007-10-02 15:39 ` Carl Worth
2007-10-02 17:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-02 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-02 18:55 ` Sean
2007-10-02 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-02 21:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-02 20:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
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