From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <62502.84.163.87.135.1141063190.squirrel@mail.geht-ab-wie-schnitzel.de> <20060227184641.GA21684@hand.yhbt.net> <20060227185557.GA32142@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <20060227192422.GB9518@hand.yhbt.net> <46a038f90602271625y6c7e9072u372b8dd3662e272c@mail.gmail.com> <20060301065138.GC21684@hand.yhbt.net> <44056BF1.6000109@op5.se> <4405C6BE.2000706@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Eric Wong , Martin Langhoff , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 01 17:26:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEU8Z-0002GE-Ep for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:25:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932420AbWCAQZK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:25:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751354AbWCAQZK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:25:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:236 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751286AbWCAQZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:25:08 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k21GP2DZ011421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:25:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k21GOvio005754; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:59 -0800 To: Andreas Ericsson In-Reply-To: <4405C6BE.2000706@op5.se> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > Personally I'm all for namespace separation. I'm assuming the script has the > tracker-branch hardcoded anyway, so I don't really understand why it would be > necessary to keep other refs in a separate directory and, if it *is* > necessary, why that subdirectory can't be .git/refs/heads/svn. > > Eric mentioned earlier that the tracking-branch can't be committed to (ever), > so the user convenience for searching other directories should be nearly > non-existant. The thing about it being .git/refs/heads/svn/xyzzy is that then you can do git checkout svn/xyzzy and start modifying it. Which is exactly against the point: the thing is _not_ a branch and you must _not_ commit to it. It's much more like a tag: it's a pointer to the last point of an svn-import. So I think it should either _be_ a tag (although Dscho worries about some broken porcelain being confused by tags changing) or it should be in a namespace all it's own. Not under .git/refs/heads/ at any point, because it is _not_ a head of development. Linus