Request for comment: Potential change to dist-git branch structure

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/04/2010 09:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 16:34:05 -0800,
>   Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> "f14/user/fred/topic/mybranch"  or other such craziness.  When I went to
>> test this, I realized that git won't allow you to have both "f14" and
>> "f14/topic" as branches, because of the way the git metadata works on
> 
> Does there need to be some sort of check for / in maintainer created
> branch names to prevent problems?

For the fedpkg commands where this would come into place, perhaps.  Like
switch-branch.  Hard to judge what will cause problems though.

> 
>> My hope is that the impact would be minimal.  Git allows branch renames,
>> and can successfully rename "f14/master" to "f14".  All the history is
>> renamed.  We should be able to do this without an outage of the git server.
> 
> Is this going to break things for people that having set up origin tracking
> for multiple releases in the same repo?

Can you explain this a bit more please?

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