From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Tags Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:52:51 -0700 Message-ID: <42C5BB33.5010304@zytor.com> References: <42C454B2.6090307@zytor.com> <42C462CD.9010909@zytor.com> <42C46B86.8070006@zytor.com> <20050701180944.GA14375@pasky.ji.cz> <42C58D83.9060107@zytor.com> <20050701214230.GA22003@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano , ftpadmin@kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 01 23:46:15 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoTKw-0003wD-UX for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:46:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261593AbVGAVxr (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:53:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262710AbVGAVxr (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:53:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:53926 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261593AbVGAVxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:53:40 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.32] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j61LquLw029422 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:52:59 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050701214230.GA22003@pasky.ji.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis wrote: > > I doubt that's really useful either. Rather artificial mechanisms for > protection of the namespace would have to be deployed, and again, what > would it be good for anyway? If you are tagging linux-2.m.n, you are > probably whoever you should be - David, Alan, Marcelo, Linus, or whoever > else, while if you are tagging linux-2.m.n-cki, you are likely Con > Kolivas. I don't believe there is any (or much) potential for "natural" > conflicts and if you are malicious, you will just fake the namespace; > but frequently what's interesting about the tags is not the author at > all - I would consider it confusing to have to suddenly dive to another > namespace when Linus hands maintenance of linux-2.m to someone else. > > The only significant value I can therefore see in the namespaces is > prevention of user mistakes, but I think the successful strategy here > would be just "upstream will notice", and make sure the upstream will be > noticed properly (perhaps even interactively) about any new tags it > gets. > > Ok, I admit that it boils down to me being lazy and that "it'd be more > typing!"... ;-) > You're missing the whole point of the discussion. Right now the only thing that makes a global object store impossible is the potential for a tag conflict, either intentional or accidental. -hpa