From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 p2 3/9] transport-helper: trivial code shuffle
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:54:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwqx6jxv2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0fmt+bHN-ycza8b+y8Ep-Cyqmg1U1PVas267fTY5iPPQ@mail.gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:05:34 +0100")
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>> This is not just "just shuffle the die to make it explicit" but it
>> does change the semantics; earlier ref->deletion was perfectly fine
>> as long as data->refspecs is not given, but the new code always
>> dies.
>>
>> If this semantic change is a good thing, please explain why it is so
>> in the log message. If the change is "it does not matter because
>> when data->refspecs is not given and ref->deletion is set, we die
>> later elsewhere in the code anyway", then it needs to be described.
>
> refspecs are optional, but when they are not present the code doesn't
> work at all. This patch changes the behavior that was totally broken
> anyway.
In case it was not clear, I did not request/expect responses in the
discussion thread, but a rerolled series with updated description.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-24 3:25 [PATCH v6 p2 0/9] transport-helper and fast-export fixes Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 1/9] transport-helper: update remote helper namespace Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 2/9] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 3/9] transport-helper: trivial code shuffle Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-28 0:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-11-28 2:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 4/9] transport-helper: fix push without refspec Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 5/9] transport-helper: fix pushing with straight refspec Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 6/9] transport-helper: fix push without marks Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 7/9] fast-export: make extra_refs global Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 8/9] fast-export: refactor get_tags_and_duplicates() Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:25 ` [PATCH v6 p2 9/9] fast-export: trivial cleanups Felipe Contreras
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