Re: [PATCH] Allow to control the namespace for replace refs

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 08:16:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Mike Hommey [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I do agree that this is all confusing, but allow me to point out that
it's already plenty confusing: "namespace" is a term that has been used to
designate a generic kind of namespace *and* refs/namespaces. See for
example:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-describe.txt#L39
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-fetch.txt#L113
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt#L36
(note how this one is specifically about refs/replace/)
there are many more.

"One more breakage does not hurt" is not something we want to see.

I won't disagree here, but we are in desperate need for a word for those
namespaces that aren't refs/namespaces, and stick to it (independently
of the replace patch), but I've never seen one.

Mike