Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce git-hive

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:48:06PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

Casey Dahlin wrote:

quoted

So now our two peers can see each other.

casey@host_a$ git hive show --branches
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref]
master
for_casey

---

nguyen@host_b$ git hive show --branches
Casey Dahlin [off-list ref]
master
stable
v2.1

And we can exchange them

casey@host_a$ git hive fetch nguyen for_casey
casey@host_a$ git branch
* master
stable
for_casey

Note that the two arguments in fetch are a regex which searches through
user IDs and a branch name, which is why I can abbreviate to just "nguyen"
in all lower case.

I may be a little late into the discussion, but I must say I very much like the
idea. I realize that this is mostly intended for local repo sharing (typically
between coworkers), but I suspect the idea could be extended to more general
distributed repository, ehrm, distribution.

The only thing I would object to, so far, is hive fetch bringing stuff
directly into my local repository. I typically prefer content to remain
fenced in its appropriate namespace (e.g. I have issues even with the way tags
and notes are imported from remotes). For hives, it might be a better idea to
have the hive-fetched branches plop into either refs/remotes or maybe even a
new dedicated namespace like refs/hive/ ?

Plan is to kill hive-fetch in favor of a fetch helper so the ordinary git
retrieval commands may be used.

--CJD