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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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 12:03 UTC|newest]

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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