From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>,
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
git@vger.kernel.org, cmn@elego.de,
A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:54:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011225434.GA24142@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqi3dxkr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:31:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > But in the code, it is spelled RENAMED-REF (with a dash). And as far as
> > I can tell, does not actually create a reflog. And it's not documented
> > anywhere, so I suspect nobody is using it. Maybe it is worth switching
> > that name.
>
> Or even better get rid of it?
Fine by me. I'm not sure anyone is even aware that it exists. Just to
double-check, I grepped the list archives, and the biggest mention of it
was its presence causing a weird bug:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143737
Googling turns up only confusion, nobody actually using it or
recommending that it be used.
OTOH, it does actually serialize branch renames, since we take a lock on
it. Maybe that's important. Cc'ing Lars. Certainly renaming it would be
the conservative choice.
-Peff
PS I mentioned above that it does not actually create a reflog. Digging
in the code more, I think it is capable of it, but my git.git clone had
RENAMED-REF, but no reflog. I would have thought core.logAllRefUpdates
would turn it on, but maybe there is a funny interaction with things not
in refs/.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 21:10 [PATCH v3 00/22] Clean up refname checks and normalization Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/22] t1402: add some more tests Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/22] git check-ref-format: add options --allow-onelevel and --refspec-pattern Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/22] Change bad_ref_char() to return a boolean value Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/22] Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/22] Refactor check_refname_format() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/22] Do not allow ".lock" at the end of any refname component Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/22] Make collapse_slashes() allocate memory for its result Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/22] Inline function refname_format_print() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/22] Change check_refname_format() to reject unnormalized refnames Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/22] resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/22] resolve_ref(): use prefixcmp() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/22] resolve_ref(): only follow a symlink that contains a valid, normalized refname Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/22] resolve_ref(): turn buffer into a proper string as soon as possible Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23 8:17 ` Thomas Rast
2011-09-23 13:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/1] get_sha1_hex(): do not read past a NUL character Michael Haggerty
2011-09-23 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-05 19:11 ` Thomas Rast
2011-10-05 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/22] resolve_ref(): extract a function get_packed_ref() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 15/22] resolve_ref(): do not follow incorrectly-formatted symbolic refs Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 16/22] remote: use xstrdup() instead of strdup() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 17/22] remote: avoid passing NULL to read_ref() Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 18/22] resolve_ref(): verify that the input refname has the right format Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references Michael Haggerty
2011-10-11 16:16 ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 20:14 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 20:39 ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 22:54 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-10-12 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-11 23:07 ` Jeff King
2011-10-11 23:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 2:11 ` Jeff King
2011-10-12 4:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 4:50 ` Jeff King
2011-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] refs.c: move dwim_ref()/dwim_log() from sha1_name.c Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] Restrict ref-like names immediately below $GIT_DIR Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 18:01 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 21:42 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 5:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 6:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 15:18 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-19 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 19:39 ` [PATCH] resolve_ref(): report breakage to the caller without warning Junio C Hamano
2011-10-19 20:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Restrict ref-like names immediately below $GIT_DIR Michael Haggerty
2011-10-19 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 21:51 ` Jeff King
2011-10-12 2:56 ` Re* [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 19:26 ` Jeff King
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 20/22] resolve_ref(): also treat a too-long SHA1 as invalid Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 21/22] resolve_ref(): expand documentation Michael Haggerty
2011-09-15 21:10 ` [PATCH v3 22/22] add_ref(): verify that the refname is formatted correctly Michael Haggerty
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