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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@lukeshu.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fast-export, fast-import: Let tags specify an internal name
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:54:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy2dbxybn.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BF-rHnxvz0sAFAujXkiNwSjtpRQA4uvxT=a3z8v_sYbAA@mail.gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:41:57 -0700")

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:40 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> +The `<refname>` is prefixed with `refs/tags/` when stored
>>  in Git, so importing the CVS branch symbol `RELENG-1_0-FINAL` would
>> -use just `RELENG-1_0-FINAL` for `<name>`, and fast-import will write the
>> +use just `RELENG-1_0-FINAL` for `<refname>`, and fast-import will write the
>>  corresponding ref as `refs/tags/RELENG-1_0-FINAL`.
>
> Going on a slight tangent since you didn't introduce this, but since
> you're modifying this exact documentation...
>
> I hate the assumed "refs/tags/" prefix.  Especially since ...
> ... The special casing reminds me of the ref-updated hook in
> gerrit

Gerrit and fast-import?  What is common is Shawn, perhaps ;-)?

> broken given the fact that the name inside the tag didn't match the
> name of the actual ref.  (To be honest, though, I was never sure why
> the name of the tag was recorded inside the tag itself.)

The name of the tag and the name of the object has to be together
for a signature over it to have any meaning, no?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-21 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 19:05 [RFC PATCH] fast-export, fast-import: Let tags specify an internal name Luke Shumaker
2021-04-20 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-21  8:18   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-21 16:17     ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-21 16:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-21 18:34     ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-21 18:48       ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-21 19:24         ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-22  8:41       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-21 18:41   ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-21 18:54     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-04-21 19:32       ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-22  8:54         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-22 19:37           ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-21  8:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-21 16:34   ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-21 17:26     ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-21 18:26     ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-21 17:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-23 16:47 ` Luke Shumaker

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