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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

  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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