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: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:35:28 -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> <20060319191243.GB18185@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Eric Wong , Martin Langhoff , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 19 20:35:46 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 1FL3gl-0002JD-12 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:35:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750741AbWCSTfk (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:35:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750744AbWCSTfk (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:35:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16798 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbWCSTfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:35:39 -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 k2JJZUDZ006081 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:35:30 -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 k2JJZTVu015179; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:35:29 -0800 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20060319191243.GB18185@pasky.or.cz> 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: 1.131 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > > (i) I _think_ that it would be less of a surprise if a branch would be > checked first. Yeah, I guess that's true. > Actually, I'm almost inclined to suggest making Git fail violently in > case of an ambiguous name. Maybe not fail, but at least warn very loudly. Linus