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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: RefTree: Alternate ref backend
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:34:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsi2ucm60.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJswuPdLT0KtGdf_=UGxD7-5NjGk2mwFjRU=uYb-Su-y+A@mail.gmail.com> (Shawn Pearce's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:11:06 -0800")

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>>
>>>> But really, aside from slightly helping
>>>> disambiguate references from paths in the command line, what is it good
>>>> for?
>>>
>>> Nothing really; today refs/ prefix is used to encourage to the tools
>>> that you really meant refs/heads/master and not
>>> refs/heads/heads/master or some other crazy construct. You can thank
>>> the DWIMery inside the ref rev parse logic for needing this.
>>
>> Aren't you two forgetting one minor thing, though?
>>
>> A layout without refs/, i.e. $GIT_DIR/{heads,tags,...}, will force
>> us to keep track of where the tips of histories are anchored for
>> reachability purposes, every time you would add a new hierarchy
>> (e.g. $GIT_DIR/changes)--and those unfortunate souls who run a
>> slightly older version of Git that is unaware of 'changes' hierarchy
>> would weep after running "git gc", no?
>
> You still store them under refs/

Well I know; the comment was merely a reaction to the exchange
between you two, "What is refs/ good for?", "Nothing really".

You'd benefit by having "refs/" that is known to contain all the
anchoring points for reachability without knowing what subhierarchy
it may contain in the future, that is what it is good for.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-17 21:02 RefTree: Alternate ref backend Shawn Pearce
2015-12-17 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-17 22:15   ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-17 22:10 ` Jeff King
2015-12-17 22:28   ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-18  1:36     ` Mike Hommey
2015-12-22 15:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-22 16:11   ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-22 17:04     ` Dave Borowitz
2015-12-22 17:17     ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-22 18:50       ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-22 19:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-22 19:11           ` Shawn Pearce
2015-12-22 19:34             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-12-23  4:59               ` Michael Haggerty
2015-12-24  1:33                 ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]       ` <4689734.cEcQ2vR0aQ@mfick1-lnx>
2015-12-22 20:56         ` Martin Fick
2015-12-22 21:23           ` Junio C Hamano

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