Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces

On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:29:04AM +0100, Johan Herland wrote:

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So, IMHO, the proper solution should be ability to specify the
desired namespace for any remote repository, like this:

remote.<name>.tagNameSpace = foo

Interesting. I'm not sure what "foo" means in this context. Would I use
it

like this?:
    remote.origin.tagNameSpace = refs/tags

I was not sure about the specific when I wrote this, so I just put "foo",
but it could be something like you wrote above.

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(to place origin's tags in refs/tags/*)

If so, what's the difference between this option, and using this?:
    remote.origin.fetch = refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

I have not tried that, but I suspect that it will cause that all tags
will be fetched even if they are not belong to tracked branches, i.e.
"git fetch" will work as "git fetch -t". But maybe I am wrong here.

Ah, yes, I should have been more specific:

    remote.origin.fetch = ~refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

In my proposal, I suggest using a "~" prefix to signal auto-following 
behavior. This is needed in order to be able to explicitly specify the 
current fetch behavior in the configuration.


...Johan

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