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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, J Wyman <jwyman@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally remote ref name
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:50:16 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk1zvuahz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710151804060.40514@virtualbox> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:05:35 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> >> -Also respects `:remotename` to state the name of the *remote* instead of
>> >> -the ref.
>> >> +Also respects `:remotename` to state the name of the *remote* instead
>> >> +of the ref, and `:remoteref` to state the name of the *reference* as
>> >> +locally known by the remote.
>> >
>> > What does "locally known by the remote" mean in this sentence?
>> 
>> Good question.  I cannot offhand offer a better and concise
>> phrasing, but I think can explain what it wants to describe ;-).
>
> Yep, described it well.
>
> Maybe "and `:remoteref` to state the name by which the remote knows the
> *reference*"?

I dunno.  

The original and your update both seem to come from a worldview
where there is a single conceptual thing called "reference" that is
shared between our repository and the remote repository we pull from
(or push to), and the name we call it is "refs/remotes/origin/devel"
while the name they use to call it is "refs/heads/devel".  If you
subscribe to that worldview, then the updated sentence might make it
clearer than the original.

But I do not share that worldview, and I am not sure (note: I am
truly unsure---it's not like I am convinced it is a good idea but
sugarcoating my expression, at least in this case) if subscribing to
the worldview helps users' understanding.

In my view "refs/remotes/origin/devel" is a reference we use to keep
track of (or "a reference that corresponds to") the reference they
have called "refs/heads/devel" at the remote, and these are two
separate entities, so it's not like "this single thing is called
differently by us and them".

Stepping back a bit; here is how the description begins.

    upstream::
            The name of a local ref which can be considered ``upstream''
            from the displayed ref.

So 'upstream' is like 'refs/remotes/origin/devel' in the example in
the message you are responding to.  Perhaps we can make it clear in
the description, and then add :remote* modifiers are about asking
where that remote-tracking branch comes from.  For example, instead
of these "Also respects...", something like:

    For a %(upstream) that is a remote-tracking branch, the name of
    the remote repository it is copied from can be obtained with
    %(upstream:remotename).  Simiarly, the branch at the remote
    repository whose tip is copioed to this remote-tracking branch
    can be obtined with %(upstream:remoteref) as a full refname.

may reduce the chance of confusion?




  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-02 13:56 [PATCH 0/3] for-each-ref: add :remote-ref and :remote-name specifiers Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-02 13:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-04  7:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04  9:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 12:20     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-02 13:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report merge name Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-04  9:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04 11:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05  9:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-02 13:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] for-each-ref: test :remote-name and :remote-ref Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-05  1:54 ` [PATCH 0/3] for-each-ref: add :remote-ref and :remote-name specifiers Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 12:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] for-each-ref: add :remoteref and :remotename specifiers Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-05 12:19   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-10  9:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11  2:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 12:19   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally remote ref name Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-06  5:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11  5:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 19:13         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-13  0:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-15 16:02             ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-13 16:39     ` Kevin Daudt
2017-10-14  2:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-15 16:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-16  1:50           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-16 11:39             ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-05 12:19   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] for-each-ref: test :remotename and :remoteref Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-07 16:30   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] for-each-ref: add :remoteref and :remotename specifiers Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-07 16:30     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-07 16:31     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] for-each-ref: let upstream/push report the remote ref name Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-07 16:31     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] for-each-ref: test :remotename and :remoteref Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-08  1:36     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] for-each-ref: add :remoteref and :remotename specifiers Junio C Hamano

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