nesting refs (Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces)

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

While you are talking about drastic reorganization (and rewriting the ref
code to support it), another possible Sub-proposal we may want to consider
is to allow "next" and "next/foo" at the same time.

Oh yeah.. how about "next/.ref" and "next/foo/.ref"? Ref search code
can be modified to check both "next" and "next/.ref" when "next" is
requested. Old git basically won't work with new ref style, so there's
not much compatibility issue.

We can also add "next/.summary" to save a brief description of a ref.
But then it would be lost in packed-refs, hm..
-- 
Duy