Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the
fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-)

My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from
having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should
allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar".  Some of the existing tools may
be forgetting to call either "mkdir -p $(dirname $ref)" if they
are written in shell, or safe_create_leading_directories(ref) in
C, but I consider that is a bug.

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the
fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-)

My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from
having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should
allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar".

That may be true, but CVS branches being named "Hänsel/Gretel" do not 
logically denote hierarchies. I never ever saw hierarchical CVS branch 
names with a "/" separator. I saw some with a "." separator.

My feeling is that it would be wrong to map CVS branch names to a 
hierarchy.

Ciao,
Dscho