From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: marcnarc@xiplink.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:53:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120413215316.GA19826@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413211350.GD7919@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> Hmm. The ref->name we are comparing here is the local side. So if I am
> fetching a new branch "foo" from the remote into a local
> "refs/remotes/origin/foo" tracking ref, it used to say:
>
> From ../parent
> * [new branch] master -> origin/master
>
> Now it says:
>
> From ../parent
> * [new ref] master -> origin/master
>
> while refs/remotes/* are not technically branches in our side, I think
> from the user's perspective, it is true that we have fetched a branch.
> Should we be calling refs/remotes/* branches, too? Should we be checking
> the remote's name for the item instead of the local one?
The former sounds sensible. Then once the default refspec learns to
fetch into separate refs/remotes/origin/heads/* and
refs/remotes/origin/notes/* namespaces the logic could be updated to
write [new branch] or [new note collection] according to the
situation.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-13 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 17:08 [PATCHv2] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ marcnarc
2012-04-13 20:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-16 14:26 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-13 21:13 ` Jeff King
2012-04-13 21:53 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-04-13 22:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 14:58 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-16 15:00 ` Jeff King
2012-04-16 15:52 ` [PATCHv3] fetch: Use the remote's ref name to decide how to describe new refs marcnarc
2012-04-16 16:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-16 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 20:21 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCHv4 0/3] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodules: recursive fetch also checks new tags for submodule commits marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] fetch: Pass both the full remote ref and its short name to update_local_ref() marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] fetch: Use the remote's ref name to decide how to describe new refs marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 7:53 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-17 7:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 8:39 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-17 14:23 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-17 15:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 15:26 ` [PATCHv4 0/3] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 15:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 19:30 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-17 22:29 ` Jeff King
2012-04-16 16:08 ` [PATCHv2] " Jonathan Nieder
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