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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, jrnieder@google.com,
	Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] run-job: implement fetch job
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 08:46:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <704d278d-205a-d11c-3454-73e06aa75dfa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeet1y8wy.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 4/5/2020 4:28 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 1. One downside of the refs/hidden pattern is that 'git log' will
>>    decorate commits with twice as many refs if they appear at a
>>    remote ref (<remote>/<ref> _and_ refs/hidden/<remote>/<ref>). Is
>>    there an easy way to exclude a refspace from decorations?
> 
> I do not think there is, but it makes sense to teach the decoration
> machinery to either use only certain refs hierarchies or use all
> hierarchies except for certain ones; if we want to make sure we
> won't break existing workflows, we should by defautlt use all the
> refs we currently use and nothing else, but over time we probably
> would want to migrate the default to cover only the local and
> remote-tracking branches and tags (and at that point, refs/hidden
> would be outside the decoration source).

I'll see what I can do about adding config to remove some refs from
decorations. That is immediately useful for Scalar users, too.

> By the way, I have a moderately strong opinion against the use of
> "refs/hidden" for the purpose of "prefetch in advance, without
> disrupting refs/remotes".  There may be more than one reason why
> some refs want to be "hidden", and depending on the purose, the
> exact refs that one workflow (e.g. "decorate") wants to hide may be
> the ones that want to be exposed.
> 
> If we rename it to "refs/prefetch/", would it make the purpose of
> the hierarchy clearer without squatting on a vague (because it does
> not tell why it is hidden) name "hidden" that other people might
> want to use to hide their stuff for different reasons?

I like "refs/prefetch". That's more descriptive.

>> Should
>>    we make refs/hidden/* a "special" refspace that is excluded from
>>    decorations?
> 
> See above.
Thanks,
-Stolee


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 20:47 [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 01/15] run-job: create barebones builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:10   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-05 19:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 14:42       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07  0:58         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:54           ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:16             ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:30               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 02/15] run-job: implement commit-graph job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-20 19:08   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 03/15] run-job: implement fetch job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:14   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:48     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 20:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 12:46     ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2020-05-20 19:08   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 04/15] run-job: implement loose-objects job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 20:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 05/15] run-job: implement pack-files job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-27 22:17   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 06/15] run-job: auto-size or use custom pack-files batch Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 07/15] config: add job.pack-files.batchSize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 08/15] job-runner: create builtin for job loop Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 09/15] job-runner: load repos from config by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:18   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:49     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 15:41   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:57     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 10/15] job-runner: use config to limit job frequency Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:24   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 11/15] job-runner: use config for loop interval Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 12/15] job-runner: add --interval=<span> option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 13/15] job-runner: skip a job if job.<job-name>.enabled is false Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 14/15] job-runner: add --daemonize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 15/15] runjob: customize the loose-objects batch size Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 21:40 ` [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Junio C Hamano
2020-04-04  0:16   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07  0:50     ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:59       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:26         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:43           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07  1:48     ` brian m. carlson
2020-04-07 20:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 22:23       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-08  0:01         ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-27 22:39           ` Josh Steadmon
2020-05-28  0:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-27 21:52               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-28 14:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 14:50                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 14:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 15:03                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 15:30                       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-05-28  4:39                         ` Johannes Schindelin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-13 13:15 [PATCH 03/15] run-job: implement fetch job Son Luong Ngoc
2020-04-13 14:14 ` Derrick Stolee

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