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From: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, David Michael Barr <davidbarr@google•com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import.
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:52:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1571690.jxJy5HzrPO@flobuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717134820.GE3071@burratino>

On Tuesday 17 July 2012 08:48:20 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Florian Achleitner wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2012 22:27:25 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> Hm, that still doesn't look right.  The RHS of the refspec is supposed to
> >> be a _private_ namespace for the remote helper, and refs/remotes/ is
> >> not private.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > remote-svn now uses get_fetch_map to retrieve the local refs. So it
> > respects the fetch refspec in the config.
> 
> No no no no no.  That's transport-helper's job.
> 
> The RHS of the remote helper's refspec really is supposed to be
> _private_.  Improvements to the documentation to clarify this would be
> welcome.

So we want the transport-helper to touch only private refs, i.e. some subdir 
of refs/, ok.
On the other hand I thought we expect git-fetch to update the RHS of the 
passed refspec (or the default one ). How?

Btw, whats FETCH_HEAD for?

> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

Thanks,
Florian

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-11 13:38 [RFC/PATCH 0/4] GSOC remote-svn Florian Achleitner
2012-07-11 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes Florian Achleitner
2012-07-11 13:38   ` [PATCH 2/4] Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls Florian Achleitner
2012-07-11 13:38     ` [PATCH 3/4] Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata Florian Achleitner
2012-07-11 13:38       ` [PATCH 4/4] When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet" Florian Achleitner
2012-07-11 14:29     ` [PATCH 2/4] Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls Dmitry Ivankov
2012-07-11 17:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-11 17:49         ` Stephen Bash
2012-07-15 14:26 ` [PATCH] Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import Florian Achleitner
2012-07-16  0:30   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-16  4:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-16 22:33     ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-17  3:27       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-17  9:54         ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-17 13:48           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-17 20:52             ` Florian Achleitner [this message]
2012-07-17 21:02               ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-17 22:25                 ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-17  9:56         ` [PATCH] Add explanatory comment for transport-helpers refs mapping Florian Achleitner
2012-07-17 16:04           ` Jonathan Nieder

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