From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mark Levedahl" Subject: Re: Allowing override of the default "origin" nickname Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:08 -0500 Message-ID: <30e4a070801110506h19b77488sbfa6ae48701f30f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <1200022189-2400-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 11 14:06:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDJb0-0006uj-1k for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758100AbYAKNGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758055AbYAKNGK (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:10 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.224]:59313 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757921AbYAKNGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:09 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so617041nze.1 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:06:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wi0sDv2U0etvEmazzHqXSU3MrbwCV4rxL5cINaNbHT8=; b=XAzl9LY1bNODNoogDJS6+2MWpRzw0HoKc36vLdi37SVrHBhr2geOJInAHBv1pGDZXcw043Dgu0u/HEA5WsNR+dCIh0jGxGK2T5U+AAR3Qljgw9DS/rruYueysgqisPPqZX3KF87Jokny9dGyqOvVYyEEhmkJmr4nHZOQ+rRKD+g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KfYxLkKUSQ+aTuK5ftC2DcejIedl7eMwZ2It3H/p9whtA7tDyEvDPabsvzNm+1I7a+muKxuSLht3+br/4BIbd9ZIKScQAYP0RQ4nG0j02zCEsVcXK/FuPcXYnbUjQhq0dGCNT1RFC3euHs+vW/7ZF9uEPB6X/3KDCgzk4Iyju14= Received: by 10.142.162.5 with SMTP id k5mr1579373wfe.171.1200056768195; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:06:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.159.5 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:06:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Jan 11, 2008 7:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > IIUC your patch only replaces the term "origin" by something > user-specifiable. I fail to see the use of it; care to explain what > workflow is easier with your patches than without? > > Ciao, > Dscho Consider a project with several servers, each of which is *supposed* is host the same project but due to lags in mirroring across airgaps, etc., are never quite in sync. Now, we get on a teleconference and discuss issues, find differences, and everyone reports that "origin" has x, but in fact "origin" means different servers to almost everyone. Also consider that only a small subset of the group really understands git, most just follow cook-book recipes to get their work done and don't understand what is going on. This is my problem: "origin" is an abstraction that hides the different server names in use and makes communication difficult, having everyone use nicknames related to their particular upstream server reduces the confusion. Mark