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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Shubham Kanodia <shubham.kanodia10@gmail•com>
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail•com>,
	 Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>,
	 Shubham Kanodia via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org,  Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] remote: allow specifying refs to prefetch
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:39:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy11xqjpx.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG=Um+3D3iGPRv4t4DcCP=Bh7gbAQ6cSJ79jmg2h-qbSiQRkUA@mail.gmail.com> (Shubham Kanodia's message of "Tue, 5 Nov 2024 21:56:52 +0530")

Shubham Kanodia <shubham.kanodia10@gmail•com> writes:

> I don't have a particular preference here, and this was discussed in
> an earlier thread
> where Junio opined (https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq5xrcn2k1.fsf@gitster.g/—
>
>> I agree that it is the right place to configure this as attributes
>> to remotes.  It would make it handy if we could give a catch-all
>> configuration, though.  For example:
>>
>> [remote "origin"]
>>       prefetch = true
>>        prefetchref = refs/heads/* refs/tags/*
>> [remote "*"]
>>        prefetch = false
>>
>> may toggle prefetch off for all remotes, except that the tags and
>> the local branches of the remote "origin" are prefetched.  Instead
>> of a multi-value configuration variable (like remote.*.fetch) where
>> we need to worry about clearing convention, we can use a regular
>> "last one wins" variable that is whitespace separated patterns, as
>> such a pattern can never have a whitespace in it.
> which is what my implementation is based on.

I am fine with space separated list or multi-valued variable.  The
only difference is that with multi-valued list, we'd need to worry
about ensuring that we have a way to "clear" the values we have seen
so far.  It has plenty of precedence and is not a rocket science.
The above, if I recall correctly, was solely about the need for
"catch-all default" (aka "*" remote) and not about multi-value vs
space separated last-one-wins value at all.  IOW, the above could
have been

    [remote "origin"]
	prefetch = true
	prefetchref = refs/heads/*
	prefetchref = refs/tags/*
    [remote "*"]
	prefetch = false

and conveyed exactly what I wanted to say in the message you quoted.

In any case, I somehow thought that we discarded the arrangement
with "*" wildcard as unworkable.  If I remember the discussion
before I left correctly, didn't it turn out to be troublesome to
have [remote "*"] section because existing code would need to
enumerate configured remotes, and we do not want to see "*" listed?
If we found a workable solution to that while I was away, that would
be great, but I haven't looked at what this latest round of the
series does to solve it (yet).  Perhaps teaching "git remote" and
"git fetch --all" to skip "*" while enumerating remotes was
sufficient?  I dunno.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-06  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-09  9:47 [PATCH] remote: introduce config to set prefetch refs Shubham Kanodia via GitGitGadget
2024-09-09  9:51 ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-09 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-09 18:21   ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-09 18:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-13  6:16       ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-13 16:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-14 19:35           ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-14 20:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-15 14:06               ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-15 16:12               ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-16  4:34                 ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-09-15 14:08 ` [PATCH v2] " Shubham Kanodia via GitGitGadget
2024-09-19 10:23   ` [PATCH v3] " Shubham Kanodia via GitGitGadget
2024-09-23 21:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-10-07 14:30       ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-10-04 20:21     ` [PATCH v4] remote: allow specifying refs to prefetch Shubham Kanodia via GitGitGadget
2024-11-04  8:47       ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-11-05  6:45       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-11-05 14:47         ` Phillip Wood
2024-11-05 16:26           ` Shubham Kanodia
2024-11-06  0:39             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-11-06  6:52               ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-11-06  8:20                 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-11-06  6:46             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-11-06 11:04               ` Phillip Wood
2024-11-05 14:45       ` Phillip Wood

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