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authorJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>2011-07-05 10:54:44 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 11:19:24 -0700
commita1bea2c1fc5e5243e873919248940dd5fff593a4 (patch)
treebd1a9c6b21cd054f12df3d0352366587168a2596 /cache.h
parentb3cfc4066d87476726e8711a8b5fc3b721aba41c (diff)
downloadgit-a1bea2c1fc5e5243e873919248940dd5fff593a4.tar.gz
ref namespaces: infrastructure
Add support for dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple namespaces, each of which can have its own branches, tags, and HEAD. Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from and push to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs to operations such as git-gc. Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when storing multiple branches of the same source. The alternates mechanism provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do. To specify a namespace, set the GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable to the namespace. For each ref namespace, git stores the corresponding refs in a directory under refs/namespaces/. For example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo will store refs under refs/namespaces/foo/. You can also specify namespaces via the --namespace option to git. Note that namespaces which include a / will expand to a hierarchy of namespaces; for example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar will store refs under refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/. This makes paths in GIT_NAMESPACE behave hierarchically, so that cloning with GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar produces the same result as cloning with GIT_NAMESPACE=foo and cloning from that repo with GIT_NAMESPACE=bar. It also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as foo/refs/heads/, which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts within the refs directory. Add the infrastructure for ref namespaces: handle the GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable and --namespace option, and support iterating over refs in a namespace. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 28a921dffc..26310c464e 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static inline enum object_type object_type(unsigned int mode)
}
#define GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_DIR"
+#define GIT_NAMESPACE_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_NAMESPACE"
#define GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_WORK_TREE"
#define DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT ".git"
#define DB_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY"
@@ -419,6 +420,8 @@ extern char *get_object_directory(void);
extern char *get_index_file(void);
extern char *get_graft_file(void);
extern int set_git_dir(const char *path);
+extern const char *get_git_namespace(void);
+extern const char *strip_namespace(const char *namespaced_ref);
extern const char *get_git_work_tree(void);
extern const char *read_gitfile_gently(const char *path);
extern void set_git_work_tree(const char *tree);