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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:01:06 +0100
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Heya,

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 09:58, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> This is the same technique we use when talking about branch names: On this
> mailing list, nobody is confused when I refer to 'maint', 'master', 'next'
> and 'pu'. Still, in our own work repos (at least in mine), these branches
> are actually called "refs/remotes/origin/<name>" (commonly referred to by
> their shorthands "origin/<name>"). Here we are, juggling the same kind of
> namespaces that I propose for tags, and it seems to work well without
> causing much confusion.

With the difference that you can't refer to "maint" as just "maint"
unless you've created "refs/heads/maint" iff it is unambiguous.


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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier