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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>,
	"Boettger, Heiko" <Heiko.Boettger@karlstorz.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] get_oid: new extended SHA-1 syntax to control resolution process
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:52:45 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AB+YVNi07G-nFkEhexyo2TG=qeNLT=JLksDVnDvs0gxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk1d8ch9g.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:51 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > - <ref>@{literal} only accepts full ref. No turning "master" into
> >   "refs/heads/master".
>
> This is already doable by saying "refs/heads/master", isn't it?  Any
> ambiguous ones like a branch or a tag whose name is 'refs/heads/master'
> (i.e. refs/heads/refs/heads/master and refs/tags/refs/heads/master
> respectively) won't interfere once you use the explicit prefix refs/
> like so.  I'd rather not to see this one added.

If refs/heads/master does _not_ exist, then ref/heads/master can
resolve to refs/heads/refs/heads/master, which I think is unexpected.
"ref not found" error or something should be returned instead.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-27  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-20 14:32 specifying revision - how to enforce matching a tag/branch-name or revision only Boettger, Heiko
2019-06-20 22:54 ` Kyle Meyer
2019-06-21 15:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-25 11:43     ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-25 14:35       ` AW: " Boettger, Heiko
2019-06-26  8:41 ` [PATCH/RFC] get_oid: new extended SHA-1 syntax to control resolution process Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-06-26 18:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-27  2:52     ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2019-06-27 16:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-30  9:30   ` Jakub Narebski
2019-07-01  0:30     ` Duy Nguyen

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