From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] init: allow alternate backends to be set for new repos Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:02:47 +0100 Message-ID: <568D0267.7080707@alum.mit.edu> References: <1449102921-7707-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> <1449102921-7707-14-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> <567AA2DF.1020408@alum.mit.edu> <1452014787.3892.40.camel@twopensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano , David Turner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 06 13:03:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGmns-0006MO-D0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 13:03:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752176AbcAFMCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:02:52 -0500 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu ([18.7.68.20]:55494 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752094AbcAFMCu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:02:50 -0500 X-AuditID: 12074414-f794f6d000007852-7e-568d02692d48 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 37.44.30802.9620D865; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:02:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p4FC97A29.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.201.122.41]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id u06C2lqE004296 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:02:48 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFprDKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqJvJ1BtmcPGTpsX8TScYLbqudDNZ NPReYXZg9rh4SdljwfP77B6fN8kFMEdx2yQllpQFZ6bn6dslcGe837ODsWAZe0Xj+fwGxues XYycHBICJhKdjyYwQdhiEhfurWfrYuTiEBK4zCjx5fZGKOcck8ScFTfBOoQFgiU23NvKBmKL CERINLxqYYQoamWSaPnTzQySYBYQl1g39zw7iM0moCuxqKcZaAUHB6+AtsT/8/IgYRYBFYl7 r7vBNosKhEjs3dnBAmLzCghKnJz5BMzmFLCWuLD1DyvESD2JHdd/QdnyEtvfzmGewCgwC0nL LCRls5CULWBkXsUol5hTmqubm5iZU5yarFucnJiXl1qka6GXm1mil5pSuokREroiOxiPnJQ7 xCjAwajEwysg0xMmxJpYVlyZe4hRkoNJSZR33cruMCG+pPyUyozE4oz4otKc1OJDjBIczEoi vCHFQOW8KYmVValF+TApaQ4WJXHeb4vV/YQE0hNLUrNTUwtSi2CyMhwcShK8soy9YUKCRanp qRVpmTklCGkmDk6Q4VxSIsWpeSmpRYmlJRnxoEiNLwbGKkiKB2jvBQagdt7igsRcoChE6ylG XY4FP26vZRJiycvPS5US51UH2SEAUpRRmge3ApaoXjGKA30szOsJUsUDTHJwk14BLWECWsJQ 1A2ypCQRISXVwOj8p3mWXcf6T2n94bMli7ZlS96M0j85c9PFFc0a051u2Co/fex/NOHL9wee SsXi7wS9cs2rp/qvXmEgeyg+5MHOkns2zOk6K+W0SrKFbCUn7pL+u0UlXNN/0neh Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 01/05/2016 07:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Turner writes: > >> I'm working on the rest now, but wanted to comment on this first. I >> went ahead and made this change, but I'm not sure I like it. In the >> git codebase, the concept will continue to be called "backend"; there >> are already-accepted patches using that terminology. Having two >> separate names for the same thing seems confusing to me. > > We have the option to update whatever "are already-accepted" [*1*]. > That would allow us to uniformly call it "ref storage", if we wanted > to. ...whereas whatever we name the option, we have to live with forever because it is user-facing. It's more important to get the option name correct (though I agree that it would be nice for the nomenclature used in the code to be reminiscent of the option name). Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu