Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

> Tags don't become "official" until they're published according to the
> project's process.  For us git users, that means the tag appears in
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git.  A tag that appears somewhere else can
> have all sorts of meanings, but I don't think "official" could be one of them.

I think you are essentially saying the same thing.

Think of hiding the unofficial tags to refs/private-tags by "interim
maintainer" (or public at large for that matter); they won't be published
automatically, unless the publisher decides to publish "according to the
project's process."

As I said in my message, it feels awkward to use refs/private-tags for
tags everybody uses for his or her own purpose, so by swapping the roles
of namespaces around, we would be able to use refs/tags for private ones,
and refs/remotes/origin/tags for the ones that came from upstream.  But
then if you fetch/pull from a third party (including the "interim
maintainer"), it feels wasteful to get full set of tags that you have in
the origin namespace anyway replicated in refs/remotes/interim/tags.

And that is what bothers me---not the waste itself, but I have this
nagging feeling that the wasteful duplication is an indication of
something else designed wrong.