From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test. Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:53:22 -0800 Message-ID: <43FEAD62.6050302@zytor.com> References: <20060224002915.17331.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cworth@cworth.org, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 24 07:53:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FCWpk-0001Ch-U7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:53:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750805AbWBXGxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:53:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932714AbWBXGxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:53:40 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:6040 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750887AbWBXGxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:53:40 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.16] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1O6rMBV015979 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:53:24 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: linux@horizon.com In-Reply-To: <20060224002915.17331.qmail@science.horizon.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: linux@horizon.com wrote: > The annoying thing about temporary branch names like "bisect" and "seek" > is that: > a) They clutter up the nae space available to the repository user. > Users have to know that those are reserved names. > b) If a repository is cloned while they're in use, they might get > into a "remotes" file, with even more confusing results. > > This is somewhat heretical, but how about making a truly unnamed branch by > having .git/HEAD *not* be a symlink, but rather hold a commit ID directly? > It's already well established that files in the .git directory directly > are strictly local to this working directory, so it seems a much better > home for such temporary state. > It might be easier to just reserve part of the namespace, e.g. ".bisect" and ".seek" instead. -hpa