From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, sunshine@sunshineco.com, sbeller@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:14:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180924231455.GA7702@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqva6ur24y.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > Do you have an opinion on whether for_each_alternate_refs() interface
> > should stop passing back refnames? By the "they may not even exist"
> > rationale in this sub-thread, I think it's probably foolish for any
> > caller to actually depend on the names being meaningful.
>
> I personally do not mind they were all ".have" or unnamed.
>
> The primary motivatgion behind for-each-alternate-refs was that we
> wanted to find more anchoring points to help the common ancestry
> negotiation and for-each-*-ref was the obvious way to do so; the
> user did not care anything about names.
Right, I think that is totally fine for the current uses. I guess my
question was: do you envision cutting the interface down to only the
oids to bite us in the future?
I was on the fence during past discussions, but I think I've come over
to the idea that the refnames actively confuse things.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 18:04 [PATCH 0/3] Filter alternate references Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 18:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 19:37 ` Jeff King
2018-09-20 20:00 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 20:06 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 16:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 17:48 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 17:57 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 0:56 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 18:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 19:47 ` Jeff King
2018-09-20 20:12 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 7:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-21 14:07 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 17:49 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-20 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/3] Filter alternate references Stefan Beller
2018-09-20 18:56 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-20 19:27 ` Jeff King
2018-09-20 19:21 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 " Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 20:18 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-26 0:59 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 22:13 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 22:27 ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 1:06 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 3:21 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 21:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-22 18:02 ` brian m. carlson
2018-09-22 19:52 ` Jeff King
2018-09-23 14:53 ` brian m. carlson
2018-09-26 1:09 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 3:33 ` Jeff King
2018-09-26 13:39 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 18:38 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 2:39 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes Taylor Blau
2018-09-21 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 21:37 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 22:18 ` Jeff King
2018-09-21 22:23 ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-24 15:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-24 18:10 ` Jeff King
2018-09-24 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-24 20:50 ` Jeff King
2018-09-24 21:01 ` Jeff King
2018-09-24 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-24 23:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-09-25 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-25 22:46 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-25 23:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26 1:18 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 3:16 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 4:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Filter alternate references Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 4:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] transport: drop refnames from for_each_alternate_ref Jeff King
2018-09-28 4:58 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 14:21 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 4:25 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 4:59 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 4:25 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 5:26 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 22:04 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-29 7:31 ` Jeff King
2018-10-02 1:56 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 4:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes Taylor Blau
2018-09-28 5:30 ` Jeff King
2018-09-28 22:05 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-29 7:34 ` Jeff King
2018-10-02 1:57 ` Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:00 ` Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:23 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Filter alternate references Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] transport: drop refnames from for_each_alternate_ref Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 23:40 ` Jeff King
2018-10-04 2:17 ` Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 2:24 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes Taylor Blau
2018-10-02 15:13 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-10-02 23:28 ` Taylor Blau
2018-10-08 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Filter alternate references Taylor Blau
2018-10-08 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] transport: drop refnames from for_each_alternate_ref Taylor Blau
2018-10-08 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command' Taylor Blau
2018-10-08 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand Taylor Blau
2018-10-08 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes Taylor Blau
2018-10-09 3:09 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Filter alternate references Jeff King
2018-10-09 14:49 ` Taylor Blau
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