From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] revision: add new parameter to specify all visible refs
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:32:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2pomzGndfhggXWz@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2i/uJPm5KxqAdkE@ncase>
On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 09:20:08AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > 1. The mutual-exclusion selection between "transfer", "uploadpack",
> > and "receive" is not how those options work in their respective
> > [...]
>
> Yup, I'm aware of this. And as you say, the current implementation
> already handles this alright for both `receive` and `uploadpack` as we
> rely on `parse_hide_refs_config()`, which knows to look at both
> `transfer.hideRefs` and `$section.hideRefs`. But I don't see a reason
> why we shouldn't allow users to ask "What is the set of hidden refs that
> are shared by `uploadpack` and `receive`?", which is exactly what
> `--visible-refs=transfer` does.
OK. I don't have a real problem with having that mode, as long as it is
documented accurately. I do think, though, that it's not that likely to
be useful on its own (even less so than the hypotheticals I gave! ;) ),
and it would be easy to add later in a backwards-compatible way. So my
instinct would be to leave it out for now, but I don't think it's
hurting too much as-is (again, with a correct explanation in the
documentation).
> The implementation is not really explicit about this as we cheat a
> little bit here by passing "transfer" as a section to the parsing
> function. So what it does right now is to basically check for the same
> section twice, once via the hard-coded "transfer.hideRefs" and once for
> the "$section.hideRefs" with `section == "transfer"`. But I didn't see
> much of a point in making this more explicit.
Yeah, I agree the implementation works OK here. It does a duplicate
string-comparison for the section, but the important thing is that it
doesn't add each entry to the list twice.
> > Now I don't have a particular use case for either of those things.
> > But they're plausible things to want in the long run, and they fit
> > in nicely with the existing ref-selection scheme of rev-list. They
> > do make your call from check_connected() slightly longer, but it is
> > pretty negligible. It's "--exclude-hidden=receive --all" instead of
> > "--visible-refs=hidden".
>
> Fair enough. I guess that the usecase where you e.g. only hide a subset
> of branches via `hideRefs` is going to be rare, so in most cases you
> don't gain much by modelling this so that you can `--exclude-hidden
> --branches`. But as you rightfully point out, modelling it that way fits
> neatly with the existing `--exclude` switch and is overall more
> flexible. So there's not much of a reason to not do so.
Thanks. I agree these aren't incredibly likely cases to come up in
practice. But unlike the "transfer" thing, it would be very hard to
switch techniques later without adding an awkward almost-the-same
option.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-08 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-28 14:42 [PATCH 0/2] receive-pack: use advertised reference tips to inform connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-10-28 14:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] connected: allow supplying different view of reachable objects Patrick Steinhardt
2022-10-28 14:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-10-28 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-10-30 18:49 ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-31 13:10 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-01 1:16 ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-28 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] receive-pack: use advertised reference tips to inform connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-10-28 15:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-10-31 14:21 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-10-31 15:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-10-30 19:09 ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-31 14:45 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-01 1:28 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 7:20 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-01 11:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-02 1:05 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 8:28 ` Jeff King
2022-10-28 16:40 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Junio C Hamano
2022-11-01 1:30 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-01 9:00 ` Jeff King
2022-11-01 11:49 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] receive-pack: only use visible refs for " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] revision: add new parameter to specify all visible refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-05 12:46 ` Jeff King
2022-11-07 8:20 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 14:32 ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-11-05 12:55 ` Jeff King
2022-11-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-05 0:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Taylor Blau
2022-11-05 12:55 ` Jeff King
2022-11-05 12:52 ` Jeff King
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] revision: move together exclusion-related functions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] revision: introduce struct to handle exclusions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 12:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-08 9:11 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-07 13:34 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-07 17:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-08 9:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 9:22 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 0:57 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-08 8:16 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 14:42 ` Jeff King
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] revparse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 14:44 ` Jeff King
2022-11-07 12:16 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 0:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Taylor Blau
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 13:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-08 14:49 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 14:51 ` Jeff King
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] revision: move together exclusion-related functions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] revision: introduce struct to handle exclusions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 15:07 ` Jeff King
2022-11-08 21:13 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-11 5:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 10:03 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-parse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-08 10:04 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:49 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:49 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] refs: fix memory leak when parsing hideRefs config Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:49 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:50 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] revision: move together exclusion-related functions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:50 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] revision: introduce struct to handle exclusions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:50 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:50 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] rev-parse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 6:50 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-11 22:18 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] " Taylor Blau
2022-11-15 17:26 ` Jeff King
2022-11-16 21:22 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-16 22:04 ` Jeff King
2022-11-16 22:33 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-17 5:45 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] refs: fix memory leak when parsing hideRefs config Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] revision: move together exclusion-related functions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] revision: introduce struct to handle exclusions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:46 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:47 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] rev-parse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 5:47 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check Patrick Steinhardt
2022-11-17 15:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] " Jeff King
2022-11-17 21:24 ` Taylor Blau
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