From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:38:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy5f2slsj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5110DF1D.8010505@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:29:49 +0100")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> On 02/05/2013 09:33 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Michael Haggerty wrote:
>>
>>> I would again like to express my discomfort about this feature, which is
>>> already listed as "will merge to next". Frankly, I have the feeling
>>> that this feature is being steamrolled in before a community consensus
>>> has been reached and indeed before many valid points raised by other
>>> members of the community have even been addressed. For example:
>>
>> In $dayjob I work with Gerrit, so I think I can start to answer some
>> of these questions.
>>
>>> * I didn't see a response to Peff's convincing arguments that this
>>> should be a client-side feature rather than a server-side feature [1].
>>
>> The client can't control the size of the ref advertisement. That is
>> the main motivation if I understood correctly.
>
> Not according to Junio [4]:
>
> Look at this as a mechanism for the repository owner to control the
> clutter in what is shown to the intended audience of what s/he
> publishes in the repository. Network bandwidth reduction of
> advertisement is a side effect of clutter reduction, and not
> necessarily the primary goal.
See my response to Jonathan.
> Hiderefs creates a "dark" corner of a remote git repo that can hold
> arbitrary content that is impossible for anybody to discover but
> nevertheless possible for anybody to download (if they know the name of
> a hidden reference).
That is why allow-tip-sha1-in-want is a separate opt-in feature only
the server side controls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-05 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 18:45 [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] upload-pack: share more code Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] upload-pack: simplify request validation Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies Junio C Hamano
2013-02-05 8:50 ` Jeff King
2013-02-05 15:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 11:31 ` Jeff King
2013-02-06 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] parse_fetch_refspec(): clarify the codeflow a bit Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] fetch: use struct ref to represent refs to be fetched Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of hidden refs Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] fetch: fetch objects by their exact SHA-1 object names Junio C Hamano
2013-02-05 9:19 ` Jeff King
2013-02-05 11:18 ` Jeff King
2013-02-05 15:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] WIP: receive.allowupdatestohidden Junio C Hamano
2013-02-05 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs Michael Haggerty
2013-02-05 8:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-05 10:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-02-05 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-02-06 10:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-06 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 19:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-06 21:50 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-02-06 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 22:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2013-02-07 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-07 0:16 ` Jeff King
2013-02-07 10:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2013-02-07 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-23 2:44 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-11 1:49 ` Jeff King
2014-03-11 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 20:05 ` Jeff King
2014-03-11 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 20:36 ` Jeff King
2014-03-14 12:37 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-14 16:45 ` Shawn Pearce
2014-03-14 23:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-15 0:09 ` Shawn Pearce
2014-03-18 4:17 ` Jeff King
2014-03-18 14:27 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-18 14:36 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-15 1:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-18 4:18 ` Jeff King
2013-02-06 22:56 ` Jeff King
2013-02-05 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-05 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 10:17 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-02-06 19:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-06 22:01 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-02-07 15:58 ` Jed Brown
2013-02-09 23:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-10 4:45 ` Jed Brown
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