From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Tags Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:37:55 -0700 Message-ID: <42C58D83.9060107@zytor.com> References: <42C454B2.6090307@zytor.com> <42C462CD.9010909@zytor.com> <42C46B86.8070006@zytor.com> <20050701180944.GA14375@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano , ftpadmin@kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 01 20:34:03 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQKk-0005ML-Kr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:33:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263429AbVGASlS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:41:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263431AbVGASlS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:41:18 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:5564 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263429AbVGASk5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:40:57 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.32] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j61Ic0L6025331 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:38:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050701180944.GA14375@pasky.ji.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:56:06PM CEST, I got a letter > where "Eric W. Biederman" told me that... > >>"H. Peter Anvin" 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