From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:45:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4E8ECA25.205@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <7vobxtwaog.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4E8EBDA7.2040007@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20111007091636.GA22822@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 07 11:45:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC6zW-00049a-8y for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:45:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752135Ab1JGJpM (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:45:12 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:39157 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069Ab1JGJpL (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:45:11 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F48204BD; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:45:10 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=2QwqBugIB44Opca4y20RrW G5lVw=; b=SCh+abQ8WeRNhP+tgQjLBRLPzCOwQ6hZcUb84o06YfmP/zBQJj9L4J nZwktWWp3vnyFuCfUO6JRoLVRl9i+UGapPHVF9jR0Oh2KJqIffQWmymyZlxDfpvt JN5aHYNqnvqoECpcw31a5KKi0ydi9OjxvDnyJeczpnkGrvv5N07ng= X-Sasl-enc: ugecKbGxy+mIEU1aJu3q3vBpht1ejXo7CofI483SDhgC 1317980710 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 253DFCA04EF; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:45:10 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 In-Reply-To: <20111007091636.GA22822@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder venit, vidit, dixit 07.10.2011 11:16: > Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> config based is so non-distributed, local in nature. > > I don't follow. Wouldn't a protocol change be enough to fix that, by > sharing branch descriptions analagously to how refs themselves are > shared? I'd be surprised if we changed the protocol just to be able to share some descriptions, when we have everything we need for sharing refs. Also note that config is non-versioned etc. But my main point here is that we should discuss the pros and cons of each approach in context (the context of the original thread), and I haven't heard many pros and cons for either. Michael