Re: Moving to git

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>]

On 08/21/2015 10:38 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:
> > On 08/21/2015 04:26 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> > > Can we limit the namespace one can create branches in?  Like force all
> > > branches created by $user to be in namespace $user?
>
> git will create new namespaces for its own purpose in the future.  If
> you allow arbitrarily named namespaces clashes will happen.

I had been thinking of "namespace" as a subdirectory of refs/heads.  But 
now I see that there is something called "namespace" in git.  Where did 
you see that git was going to claim certain namespace names?  git help 
namespaces doesn't suggest anything like that.

> > We can't control what 'git clone' pulls by default.
>
> close pulls everything below refs/heads by default.

Yes; my point was that you can't change that except with 
--single-branch.  But if we encourage people to use personal git 
namespaces, then they won't be under refs/heads, so they won't be pulled 
by default.

Jason