From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not ignore hidden refs Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:50:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7vejs0cz5s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20061118041137.6064.75827.stgit@machine.or.cz> <7v8xi9fjw9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061118045323.GK7201@pasky.or.cz> <7vzmapdxki.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061118192830.GP7201@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20061118192830.GP7201@pasky.or.cz> (Petr Baudis's message of "Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:28:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlWCu-00046a-KI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:50:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755235AbWKRTuZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:50:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755239AbWKRTuZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:50:25 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:19688 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755235AbWKRTuZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:50:25 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061118195024.HHSF18767.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:50:24 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id oKpw1V0091kojtg0000000; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:49:56 -0500 To: Petr Baudis Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis writes: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:27:09AM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I think, however, if we (collectively as all the Porcelain >> writers although I am not really one of them) are to support it, >> they should not make distinction to the core, and it should be >> handled with the agreed-upon convention. > > I guess I agree. > >> ... I do not think it is a great >> enough convention to be promoted as the official BCP, but it has >> been good enough for me, ... > > That's way too arbitrary for my taste, I think I needn't explain why. Because _I_ explained why already ;-). > What about leading underscore? I would rather prefer to do refs/{heads,private}/ and allow checkout to treat either of them as branches. We are talking about allowing checkout to go to a non-branch by storing a raw commit object name in HEAD instead of leaving it as a symref, so we know we are going to touch that area already.