From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:00:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120416150036.GA15009@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8C338D.1050805@xiplink.com>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:58:21AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> Git is better off describing what's appeared in the remote repo, and not
> worrying about describing how the user might've mapped those things to local
> refs.
That's my preference, as well, so it sounds like you, Junio, and I are
all in agreement.
> (That said, patching fetch.c to do that is a bit beyond me at the moment.
> Where would I find the remote's name for the ref?)
During transfer operations, the remote side of the pair is generally
pointed to by the peer_ref member of "struct ref" (so just use
"ref->peer_ref->name" instead of "ref->name").
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 17:08 [PATCHv2] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ marcnarc
2012-04-13 20:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-16 14:26 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-13 21:13 ` Jeff King
2012-04-13 21:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-13 22:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 14:58 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-16 15:00 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-04-16 15:52 ` [PATCHv3] fetch: Use the remote's ref name to decide how to describe new refs marcnarc
2012-04-16 16:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-16 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 20:21 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCHv4 0/3] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodules: recursive fetch also checks new tags for submodule commits marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] fetch: Pass both the full remote ref and its short name to update_local_ref() marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] fetch: Use the remote's ref name to decide how to describe new refs marcnarc
2012-04-16 22:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 7:53 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-17 7:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 8:39 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-17 14:23 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-17 15:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-17 15:26 ` [PATCHv4 0/3] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 15:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 19:30 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-17 22:29 ` Jeff King
2012-04-16 16:08 ` [PATCHv2] " Jonathan Nieder
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