From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] notes: replace pseudorefs with real refs
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:00:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh9onbu53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B824BD.8000003@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2015 02:56:29 +0200")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> It sounds like what a notes merge really wants is a new linked worktree
> that has branch refs/notes/foo checked out:
>
> * This would allow multiple notes merges to take place at the same time
> provided they target different merge references.
>
> * This would prevent multiple notes merges to the same notes reference
> at the same time by the same mechanism that prevents the same branch
> from being checked out in two linked worktrees at the same time.
>
> It's just a thought; I have no idea whether it is practical...
That was certainly one of the possibilities that crossed my mind.
In any case, the primary thing I am interested in at this point is
to unblock David's "prepare things so that we can put primary refs
in a different ref backends more easily" topic, and I've already
made my point a few messages ago upstream:
I think it is OK for us to admit that the "notes" subsystem is
not quite ready to work well with multiple working tree world
yet [*1*], and move this series forward without worrying about
them.
So doing the absolute minimum, leaving the "now what can we do to
improve notes-merge process?" outside the scope of the topic.
Improving the notes-merge process is also an interesting topic, but
it is clear that people started thinking about it today ;-), so it
can wait without blocking David's work. The refs/notes/* hierarchy
will be handled exactly the same way as regular branches in the
pluggable ref-backends, and how the ephemeral REF_NOTES_REF and
friends are represented (some are refs, some may be pseudo-refs,
some may be just a filesystem entity) would need to be revamped if
we really do the "improving notes-merge" thing anyway, so David's
topic shouldn't be blocked by the "possible future tweak" of the
current design that hasn't happened yet. Instead, improving
notes-merge can be done on top, potentially undoing and redoing
Davi'd topic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-29 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-28 18:12 [PATCH v3 0/6] pseudorefs David Turner
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] refs: Introduce pseudoref and per-worktree ref concepts David Turner
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] notes: replace pseudorefs with real refs David Turner
2015-07-28 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 19:24 ` David Turner
2015-07-28 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 21:23 ` [PATCH] notes: handle multiple worktrees David Turner
2015-07-28 21:42 ` David Turner
2015-07-28 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 22:50 ` Johan Herland
2015-08-03 13:27 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-28 22:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-28 22:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] notes: replace pseudorefs with real refs Johan Herland
2015-07-28 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 23:43 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-29 0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 0:56 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-07-29 1:23 ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-29 1:24 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-29 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 2:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-07-29 2:53 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-29 5:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 2:34 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-29 5:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 13:19 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-29 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-30 6:05 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-30 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 2:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-29 2:37 ` Johan Herland
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] refs: add ref_type function David Turner
2015-07-29 6:32 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] pseudorefs: create and use pseudoref update and delete functions David Turner
2015-07-29 6:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] rebase: use update_ref David Turner
2015-07-28 18:12 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] sequencer: replace write_cherry_pick_head with update_ref David Turner
2015-07-28 19:01 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] pseudorefs Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 19:07 ` David Turner
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqh9onbu53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=dturner@twopensource.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=johan@herland.net \
--cc=mhagger@alum.mit.edu \
--cc=philipoakley@iee.org \
--cc=sunshine@sunshineco.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).