From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] init: allow alternate backends to be set for new repos
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:02:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568D0267.7080707@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk2nnkio4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On 01/05/2016 07:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
>
>> I'm working on the rest now, but wanted to comment on this first. I
>> went ahead and made this change, but I'm not sure I like it. In the
>> git codebase, the concept will continue to be called "backend"; there
>> are already-accepted patches using that terminology. Having two
>> separate names for the same thing seems confusing to me.
>
> We have the option to update whatever "are already-accepted" [*1*].
> That would allow us to uniformly call it "ref storage", if we wanted
> to.
...whereas whatever we name the option, we have to live with forever
because it is user-facing. It's more important to get the option name
correct (though I agree that it would be nice for the nomenclature used
in the code to be reminiscent of the option name).
Michael
--
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 0:35 [PATCH 00/16] LMDB refs backend atop pre-vtable David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 01/16] refs: add a backend method structure with transaction functions David Turner
2015-12-05 0:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 02/16] refs: add methods for misc ref operations David Turner
2015-12-11 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-11 23:49 ` David Turner
2015-12-11 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-11 23:49 ` David Turner
2015-12-12 0:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-12 0:48 ` David Turner
2015-12-18 4:06 ` Howard Chu
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 03/16] refs: add methods for the ref iterators David Turner
2016-01-03 0:06 ` David Aguilar
2016-01-04 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-05 13:43 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-01-05 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-04 19:12 ` Ronnie Sahlberg
2016-01-04 20:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-05 1:17 ` Jeff King
2016-01-05 3:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 04/16] refs: add do_for_each_per_worktree_ref David Turner
2015-12-11 23:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-12 0:01 ` David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 05/16] refs: add methods for reflog David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 06/16] refs: add method for initial ref transaction commit David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 07/16] refs: add method for delete_refs David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 08/16] refs: add methods to init refs backend and db David Turner
2015-12-23 5:33 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-23 6:54 ` David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 09/16] refs: add method to rename refs David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 10/16] refs: make lock generic David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 11/16] refs: move duplicate check to common code David Turner
2015-12-23 6:27 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-01-05 16:42 ` David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 12/16] refs: always handle non-normal refs in files backend David Turner
2015-12-23 8:02 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-01-06 0:13 ` David Turner
2016-01-06 23:41 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 1/3] refs: allow log-only updates David Turner
2016-01-06 23:41 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 2/3] refs: resolve symbolic refs first David Turner
2016-01-06 23:41 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 3/3] refs: always handle non-normal refs in files backend David Turner
2016-01-08 12:52 ` David Turner
2016-01-06 23:42 ` [PATCH 12/16] " David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 13/16] init: allow alternate backends to be set for new repos David Turner
2015-12-05 0:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-05 6:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-12-05 7:44 ` Jeff King
2015-12-08 0:38 ` David Turner
2015-12-23 9:52 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-23 20:01 ` Jeff King
2015-12-10 18:02 ` Jeff King
2015-12-10 19:36 ` David Turner
2015-12-23 11:30 ` [PATCH] clone: use child_process for recursive checkouts Michael Haggerty
2016-01-06 23:41 ` David Turner
2015-12-23 13:34 ` [PATCH 13/16] init: allow alternate backends to be set for new repos Michael Haggerty
2016-01-05 17:26 ` David Turner
2016-01-05 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-05 18:24 ` David Turner
2016-01-06 12:02 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2016-01-06 12:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-01-07 3:31 ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 14/16] refs: allow ref backend to be set for clone David Turner
2015-12-23 13:51 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-23 20:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 15/16] refs: add LMDB refs backend David Turner
2015-12-05 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-05 0:25 ` David Turner
2015-12-17 1:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-12-17 2:31 ` David Turner
2015-12-17 20:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-12-23 14:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-01-08 16:05 ` David Turner
2015-12-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 16/16] refs: tests for lmdb backend David Turner
2015-12-22 23:56 ` [PATCH 00/16] LMDB refs backend atop pre-vtable David Turner
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