On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> We could put still ref aliases
>> into the same ref namespace, with lower precedence that actual refs,
>> so no new syntax required.
>
> Actually, ref-alises are the right way to solve the problem.
> Recursive symref peeling is a bad idea: I can't take my aliases with
> me, and they complicate unnecessarily.
>
> Any thoughts on how to implement it? Should it go as deep as
> resolve_ref_unsafe()?
Depends on how you define ref alias. resolve_ref_unsafe allows you to
substitute one ref with another. Thomas was talking about substituting
part of extended sha-1 syntax (U -> @{u}) so it can't be done down
there. I still think get_sha1_with_context_1() is the right place.
Still not so sure how to handle when we have both alias "U" and
refs/heads/U.
--
Duy
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