On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:07:12PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > When pushing, the remote namespace is updated correctly > (e.g. refs/origin/master), but not the remote helper's > (e.g. refs/testgit/origin/master). > > Let's update it correctly. I would have thought it was the helper's responsibility to update these. Obviously remote-testgit can handle this fine, but will any other helpers be using these refs as a marker to know the last point they imported, and get confused if we update the refs behind their back? For example, during the import, a helper might know that it has imported up to X on a foreign vcs, and that resulted in commit Y in git, which it stored in refs/$helper/heads/master during the last import. When we fetch from it again, it picks up from X to the tip of the foreign vcs, and then imports that history on top of commit Y. But if we push some commits to the helper, moving Y up to Z, then it would build the new commit (which contains the foreign-vcs's equivalent of Y..Z) on top of Z, not Y. I do not offhand know of any helpers that are implemented this way, though. vcs-svn does not seem to use the refspec feature at all, and I assume that your hg/bzr helpers do not have this problem. So perhaps it is not worth worrying about. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html