From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
ftpadmin@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tags
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:37:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C58D83.9060107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050701180944.GA14375@pasky.ji.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:56:06PM CEST, I got a letter
> where "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> told me that...
>
>>"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>In the end, it might be that the right thing to do for git on kernel.org is to
>>>have a single, unified object store which isn't accessible by anything other
>>>than git-specific protocols. There would have to be some way of dealing with,
>>>for example, conflicting tags that apply to different repositories, though.
>>
>>As far as I can tell public distributed tags are not that hard and if
>>you are going to be synching them it is probably worth working on.
>>
>>The basic idea is that instead of having one global tag of
>>'linux-2.6.13-rc1' you have a global tag of
>>'torvalds@osdl.org/linux-2.6.13-rc1'.
>>
>>The important part is that the tag namespace is made hierarchical
>>with at least 2 levels. Where the top level is a globally
>>unique tag owner id and the bottom level is the actual tag. This
>>prevents collisions when merging trees because two peoples
>>tags are never in the same namespace, as least when
>>people are not actively hostile :)
>
>
> I don't know, I don't consider this very appealing myself. I'd rather
> prefer the private tags to be per-repository rather than per-user, since
> those ugly "merged-here", "broken" etc. tags aren't very useful on
> larger scope than of a repository. OTOH, what tags would be per-user,
> not per-repository and not global?
>
He's talking about global tags, just using a "globally unique"
namespace. Which of course only works right if only genuinely can't
create tags outside your assigned namespace.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-01 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 17:54 "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 18:24 ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 18:27 ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 19:04 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 18:45 ` "git-send-pack" Jan Harkes
2005-06-30 19:01 ` "git-send-pack" Mike Taht
2005-06-30 19:42 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01 9:50 ` "git-send-pack" Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-30 19:44 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 20:38 ` "git-send-pack" Junio C Hamano
2005-06-30 21:05 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 21:29 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:55 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 22:26 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 23:40 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 0:02 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01 1:24 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 23:44 ` "git-send-pack" Mike Taht
2005-07-02 0:07 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 1:56 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 4:08 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 4:22 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 4:29 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:16 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 17:37 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:44 ` "git-send-pack" Tony Luck
2005-07-02 17:48 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 18:12 ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 22:25 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 23:56 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01 5:01 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 21:08 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:10 ` "git-send-pack" Dan Holmsand
2005-06-30 19:49 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 20:12 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 20:23 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 20:52 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:23 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 21:26 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 21:42 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 22:00 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 10:31 ` "git-send-pack" Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 14:43 ` "git-send-pack" Jan Harkes
2005-07-01 13:56 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 16:37 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 22:38 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 22:44 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 23:07 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 23:22 ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-02 0:06 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 7:00 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 17:47 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:54 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 17:58 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 18:31 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 19:55 ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-02 21:16 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 21:39 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 21:42 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 22:02 ` Tags A Large Angry SCM
2005-07-02 22:20 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 23:49 ` Tags A Large Angry SCM
2005-07-03 0:17 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 22:14 ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-02 22:17 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-03 0:04 ` Tags Dan Holmsand
2005-07-03 22:34 ` Tags Kevin Smith
2005-07-05 13:04 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-05 16:21 ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-05 17:51 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-05 18:33 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-05 19:22 ` Tags Junio C Hamano
2005-07-06 18:04 ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-07 3:31 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 18:45 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 20:38 ` Tags Jan Harkes
2005-07-02 22:32 ` Tags Jan Harkes
2005-07-02 16:00 ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 18:09 ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-01 18:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-07-01 21:20 ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 21:42 ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-01 21:52 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 22:27 ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-01 22:59 ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-06-30 20:49 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
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