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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 4/6] transport: add refspec list parameters to functions
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:31:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461094263.5540.113.camel@twopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa8kq69i5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 11:45 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> 
> > Add parameters for a list of refspecs to transport_get_remote_refs
> > and
> > get_refs_list.  These parameters are presently unused -- soon, we
> > will
> > use them to implement fetches which only learn about a subset of
> > refs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
> > ---
> 
> What the code tries to do I am more than halfway happy.  It is
> unfortunate that we cannot do this natively without upgrading the
> protocol in a fundamental way, but this is a nice way to work it
> around only for Git-over-HTTP transport without having to break the
> protocol.
>  
> As a POC it is OK, but I am moderately unhappy with the use of
> "refspec" here.
> 
> At the transport layer, we shouldn't care what the receiving end
> intends to do with the objects that sits at the tip of the refs at
> the other end, so sending "refspecs" down feels somewhat wrong for
> this feature.  At one layer up in the next patch, you do use
> "interesting refs" which makes it clear that only the left-hand-side
> of a refspec, i.e. what they call it, matters, and I think that is a
> much better phrasing of the concept (and the passed data should only
> be the left-hand-side of refspecs).

I will rename the parameter to "interesting_refs".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-15 19:19 [PATCH/RFC 0/6] fetch with refspec David Turner
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/6] http-backend: use argv_array functions David Turner
2016-04-18 18:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-19 19:11     ` David Turner
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/6] remote-curl.c: fix variable shadowing David Turner
2016-04-18 18:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-19 19:14     ` David Turner
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/6] http-backend: handle refspec argument David Turner
2016-04-17  1:51   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-19 18:57     ` David Turner
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/6] transport: add refspec list parameters to functions David Turner
2016-04-18 18:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-19  7:14     ` Jeff King
2016-04-19 18:04       ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-19 20:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-19 21:40       ` David Turner
2016-04-19 23:22         ` Jeff King
2016-04-19 23:43           ` David Turner
2016-04-20  1:17             ` Jeff King
2016-04-20 20:46               ` David Turner
2016-04-20 20:57                 ` Jeff King
2016-04-25 16:44                   ` David Turner
2016-04-25 22:10                     ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-27  3:59                       ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-27  4:11                         ` Jeff King
2016-04-27 15:07                           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 23:05                         ` David Turner
2016-04-29 23:12                           ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-19 19:31     ` David Turner [this message]
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/6] fetch: pass refspec to http server David Turner
2016-04-17  2:33   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-19 21:25     ` David Turner
2016-04-15 19:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 6/6] clone: send refspec for single-branch clones David Turner
2016-04-17  2:36   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-19 21:24     ` David Turner
2016-04-15 19:30 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/6] fetch with refspec Stefan Beller

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