Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Philip & Junio, On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Philip Oakley" writes: > > > Perhaps something like: > > +$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents similar to replace > > +refs (with the difference that shallow does not actually > > +create those replace refs) with the differen

Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Philip Oakley" writes: > Perhaps something like: > +$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents similar to replace > +refs (with the difference that shallow does not actually > +create those replace refs) with the difference that shallow commits will > +always have their parents not present. I am

Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-24 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi dscho From: "Johannes Schindelin" : Tuesday, April 24, 2018 8:10 PM On Sun, 22 Apr 2018, Philip Oakley wrote: From: "Johannes Schindelin" > Now that grafts are deprecated, we should start to assume that readers > have no idea what grafts are. So it makes more sense to describe the > "sha

Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-24 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Philip, On Sun, 22 Apr 2018, Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Johannes Schindelin" > > Now that grafts are deprecated, we should start to assume that readers > > have no idea what grafts are. So it makes more sense to describe the > > "shallow" feature in terms of replace refs. > > > > Suggested

Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-22 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Johannes Schindelin" Now that grafts are deprecated, we should start to assume that readers have no idea what grafts are. So it makes more sense to describe the "shallow" feature in terms of replace refs. Suggested-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/

[PATCH v3 09/11] technical/shallow: describe the relationship with replace refs

2018-04-20 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Now that grafts are deprecated, we should start to assume that readers have no idea what grafts are. So it makes more sense to describe the "shallow" feature in terms of replace refs. Suggested-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/technical/shallow.txt | 19 +++