Re: [egit-dev] Missing refs/notes/review in new repository on Gerrit cau

[Sascha Scholz <sascha.scholz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

is there already progress in this area? Or should I create a bugzilla
issue for jgit?

Sascha

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Sascha Scholz <sascha.scholz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Shawn Pearce <sop@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> EGit should look at the the advertised references to see if
>> refs/notes/review exists before it starts to fetch. If it doesn't,
>> don't ask for it. Maybe it makes senes to add an "ignore missing"
>> option to the JGit RefSpec object type so that EGit can tell JGit its
>> OK if a refs/notes/review reference isn't available for fetch. C Git
>> maybe should learn a syntax like that too, maybe "fetch =
>> ?refs/notes/review:refs/notes/review". I would push this upstream with
>> both C Git and JGit projects and see if we can find a way to make
>> these sorts of fetch specifications non-fatal.
>>
>> Another option is to fetch refs/notes/*:refs/notes/* instead of just
>> the review branch.
>
> +1 for having the ? prefix in a fetch spec to mark it as optional
> -1 for fetching refs/notes/*. That was the first implementation idea
> and we discarded it because you don't know what other notes may now or
> in future be available (and maybe you don't want to fetch them by
> default)
>
> Sascha