On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:38 AM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:22 PM Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:38 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Even with a new ref storage, I'm pretty sure pseudo refs like HEAD, > > > FETCH_HEAD... will forever be backed by filesystem. HEAD for example > > > is part of the repository signature and must exist as a file. We could > > > also lookup pseudo refs with readdir() instead of lstat(). On > > > case-preserving-and-insensitive filesystems, we can reject "head" this > > > way. But that comes with a high cost. > > > -- > > > Duy > > > > Once other refs are backed by something that doesn't depend on > > filesystem case sensitivity, you could enforce that we only accept > > call-caps HEAD as a psuedo ref, and always look up other spellings in > > the other refs backend, though, right? > > Hmm.. yes. I don't know off hand if we have any pseudo refs in > lowercase. Unlikely so yes this should work. > I think even if we had lowercase pseudo refs, as long as we know which identifiers represent pseudo refs, and we don't have two variants which match if compared case insensitively, we shouldn't have ambiguity, since we'd distinguish whether to check a pseudo ref spot before we actually check the file system. > > So, yea the actual file may not > > be case sensitive, but we would never create refs/head anymore for any > > reason, so there would be no ambiguity if reading the refs/head vs > > refs/HEAD on a case insensitive file system, since refs/head would no > > longer be a legitimate ref stored as a file if you used a different > > refs backend. > > > > Basically, we'd be looking up HEAD by checking the file, but we'd stop > > looking up head, hEAd, etc in the files, and instead use whatever > > other refs backend for non-pseudo refs. Thus, it wouldn't matter, > > since we'd never actually lookup the other spellings of HEAD as a > > file. Wouldn't that solve the ambiguity, at least once a repository > > has fully switched to some alternative refs backend for non-pseudo > > refs? (Unless I mis-understand and refs/head could be an added pseudo > > ref?) > > No I think "pseudo refs" are those outside "refs" directory only. So > "refs/head" would be a "normal" ref. > Right, I was a bit confused pre-coffee and forgot why a ref was a pseudo ref. > > Jake > > > > -- > Duy
