From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] push: update remote tags only with force Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:50:56 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzk2i95e7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1352693288-7396-1-git-send-email-chris@rorvick.com> <7v4nktdwtp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v390ccoak.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmwykay4n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8va3afrt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Rorvick , git , Drew Northup , Michael Haggerty , Philip Oakley , Johannes Sixt , Kacper Kornet , Jeff King , Felipe Contreras To: Angelo Borsotti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 15 17:51:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZ2ep-0000ui-LD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:51:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1768429Ab2KOQvB (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:51:01 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:60575 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1768379Ab2KOQu7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:50:59 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BF8A045; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=UoSs6aE6DAFT+mK32IPkJuC+Fbs=; b=nNWa6U 0u8B6fcCzV/VWx2JxAuOcHYAwKWMNk4nh+Wf2lZNUuIkf0yM4humv5rGR3lReXxk FQGzJwdLzbPjgI6EX3u58Z0NbxVT6guFNHRQ7eflnt4H0jxRH8wSiReesU5r+Bcd gxoxf+y0mQXO3BmZS+fHhrRP4uSqiu/rjTj5E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=rAC9fhwhl3xBNjqF8f+AtvAVOyOZhApn fRPKRPi9agiM414N1ClSbhP4a8qcYuZMpUlECa2fgY4zjNZavas0vk9MFYBe6K2b 9IZq83zpIGKJzGHlWRpsldmdNYdbU36JONZTQzEj9Q0SCuGTeIPJeRPWUoa8dwlI t74Lyo27JBM= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4770A044; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 10882A041; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:50:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Angelo Borsotti's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:48:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A1101686-2F44-11E2-B469-54832E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Angelo Borsotti writes: >> I am *not* convinced that the "refs/tags/ is the only special >> hierarchy whose contents should not move" is a bad limitation we >> should avoid, but if it indeed is a bad limitation, the above is one >> possible way to think about avoiding it. > > What other hierarchy besides branches and tags is there? Do you have > in mind some other that should not move? People use their own hierarchies for various purposes that are not pre-defined by git-core, e.g. refs/changes/, refs/pull/, etc. Depending on the semantics the projects want out of these hierarchies, some of them may well be considered "create-only".