From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: Allow treeish expressions as notes ref
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:19:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqegkbzrf6.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436517551-12172-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:39:11 +0900")
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> init_notes() is the main point of entry to the notes API. It is an arbitrary
> restriction that all it allows as input is a strict ref name, when callers
> may want to give an arbitrary treeish.
>
> However, some operations that require updating the notes tree require a
> strict ref name, because they wouldn't be able to update e.g. foo@{1}.
>
> So we allow treeish expressions to be used in the case the notes tree is
> going to be used without write "permissions", and to distinguish whether
> the notes tree is intended to be used for reads only, or will be updated,
> a flag is added.
>
> This has the side effect of enabling the use of treeish as notes refs in
> commands allowing them, e.g. git log --notes=foo@{1}.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
> ---
> builtin/notes.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
> notes-cache.c | 11 ++++++-----
> notes-utils.c | 6 +++---
> notes.c | 11 +++++++----
> notes.h | 10 +++++++++-
> t/t3301-notes.sh | 10 ++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
At least Documentation/pretty-options.txt needs to be updated, as it
explicitly requests you to feed a ref, but you'd want to tell the
users that you loosened it. I suspect Documentation/git-notes.txt
may also need adjustment as that involves writing side, but I didn't
look very carefully.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-13 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-17 1:15 [PATCH] notes: Use get_sha1_committish instead of read_ref in init_notes() Mike Hommey
2015-06-17 3:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 9:40 ` Mike Hommey
2015-06-17 15:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 16:35 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-08 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 - RFH] notes: Allow committish expressions as notes ref Mike Hommey
2015-07-09 2:48 ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Hommey
2015-07-10 1:03 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-10 1:28 ` [PATCH v4] notes: Allow treeish " Mike Hommey
2015-07-10 7:16 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-10 7:22 ` Mike Hommey
2015-07-10 8:39 ` [PATCH] " Mike Hommey
2015-07-13 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-13 20:53 ` Mike Hommey
2015-07-13 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-08 2:50 ` Mike Hommey
2015-10-08 2:54 ` [PATCH v6] notes: allow " Mike Hommey
2015-10-08 19:03 ` [PATCH] notes: Allow " Junio C Hamano
2015-07-13 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-06-17 3:22 ` [PATCH] notes: Use get_sha1_committish instead of read_ref in init_notes() Jeff King
2015-06-17 9:02 ` Mike Hommey
2015-06-17 16:35 ` Jeff King
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