On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 06:13:55AM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > I may have missed a few of the earlier messages, but in the last > 20 or so in this thread, I did not see namespaces mentioned by > anyone. (I.e., apologies if it was addressed and discarded > earlier!) > > I was under the impression that, as long as "read" access need > not be controlled (Konstantin's situation, at least, and maybe > Peff's too, for public repos), namespaces are a good way to > create and manage that "mother repo". > > Is that not true anymore? Mind, I have not actually used them > in anger anywhere, so I could be missing some really big point > here.
The biggest problem with namespaces as they are currently implemented is that they do not apply universally to all commands. If you only access the repo via push/fetch, they may be fine. But as soon as you start doing other operations (e.g., showing the history of a branch in a web interface), you don't get to use the namespaced names anymore. I think a different implementation of namespaces could do this better. E.g., by controlling the view of the refs at the refs.c layer (or perhaps as a filtering backend). -Peff
