From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
"Johan Herland" <johan@herland.net>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Git mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>,
"Michael Schubert" <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Local tag killer
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:44:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1309301839080.6331@syhkavp.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5249E9C8.1070700@xiplink.com>
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> On 13-09-30 04:08 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Again, in the cases where there is actually a SHA1 conflict between all
> > possible tags that match a tag short-end then listing them and asking the
> > user to be more explicit is the right thing to do. But that should be a
> > very rare case in practice, and designing for making this case easy is
> > the wrong approach.
> >
> > Instead, the common case of multiple remotes with duplicated tag names
> > referring to the same thing _and/or_ multiple remotes with distinct tags
> > names is what should be made easy to use with no extra steps.
>
> Again, I don't think that's the common case. I think it's just as likely for
> there to be multiple remotes with duplicate tag names that refer to different
> objects.
Why do you say so? I'm curious to know what kind of work flow would do
that in practice.
At least for typical Linux kernel workflows what I said above is true.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 2:54 Local tag killer Michael Haggerty
2013-09-13 4:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-20 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-21 6:42 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-09-21 12:28 ` John Szakmeister
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Jeff King
2013-09-24 13:22 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-09-25 8:22 ` Jeff King
2013-09-25 22:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-28 12:20 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-09-28 21:42 ` Johan Herland
2013-09-29 4:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-09-29 9:30 ` Johan Herland
2013-09-30 15:24 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-09-30 15:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-30 19:16 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-09-30 20:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-30 21:14 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-09-30 22:44 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2013-09-30 23:18 ` Jeff King
2013-10-01 3:04 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-10-01 3:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-01 12:45 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 00/15] Change semantics of "fetch --tags" Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 01/15] t5510: use the correct tag name in test Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 02/15] t5510: prepare test refs more straightforwardly Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 6:49 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-24 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 03/15] t5510: check that "git fetch --prune --tags" does not prune branches Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 04/15] api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspect" Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 7:06 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 05/15] get_ref_map(): rename local variables Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 7:24 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 06/15] ref_remove_duplicates(): avoid redundant bisection Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 07/15] ref_remove_duplicates(): simplify function Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 08/15] ref_remove_duplicates(): improve documentation comment Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 09/15] builtin/fetch.c: reorder function definitions Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 10/15] fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff Michael Haggerty
2013-10-24 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25 15:08 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-28 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 4:26 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-26 5:10 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 11/15] fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecs Michael Haggerty
2013-10-24 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-26 6:49 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-28 15:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 12/15] query_refspecs(): move some constants out of the loop Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 13/15] builtin/remote.c: reorder function definitions Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 14/15] builtin/remote.c:update(): use struct argv_array Michael Haggerty
2013-10-23 15:50 ` [PATCH 15/15] fetch, remote: properly convey --no-prune options to subprocesses Michael Haggerty
2013-10-24 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-23 16:59 ` [PATCH 00/15] Change semantics of "fetch --tags" Junio C Hamano
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