On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 08:16:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> writes: > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
