From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Andreas Krey" <a.krey@gmx.de>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Git Users" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 06:36:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cae7028d-b92e-a7ca-6d33-713665848da3@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171006171623.kjzeavnzopowvqzv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 10/06/2017 07:16 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:09:10PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>
>> I do have one twinge of uneasiness at a deeper level, that I haven't had
>> time to check...
>>
>> Does this patch make it easier to *set* HEAD to an unborn branch that
>> d/f conflicts with an existing reference? If so, that might be a
>> slightly worse UI for users. I'd rather learn about such a problem when
>> setting HEAD (when I am thinking about the new branch name and am in the
>> frame of mind to solve the problem) rather than later, when I try to
>> commit to the new branch.
>
> Good question. The answer is no, it's allowed both before and after my
> patch. At least via git-symbolic-ref.
>
> I agree it would be nice to know earlier for such a case. For
> symbolic-ref, we probably should allow it, because it's plumbing that
> may be used for tricky things. For things like "checkout -b", you'd
> generally get a timely warning as we try to create the ref.
>
> The odd man out is "checkout --orphan", which leaves the branch unborn.
> It might be nice if it did a manual check that the ref is available (and
> also that it's syntactically acceptable, though I think we may do that
> already).
>
> But all of that is orthogonal to this fix, I think.
Thanks for checking. Yes, I totally agree that this is orthogonal.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-07 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-05 17:25 Regression in 'git branch -m'? Andreas Krey
2017-10-05 18:33 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 7:39 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 8:37 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 9:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-06 10:06 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 14:37 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] t3308: create a real ref directory/file conflict Jeff King
2017-10-06 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes Jeff King
2017-10-06 17:09 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-10-06 17:16 ` Jeff King
2017-10-07 4:36 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2017-11-05 5:36 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-10-07 1:31 ` Regression in 'git branch -m'? Junio C Hamano
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