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I recently learned about git namespaces and currently trying to grok it. In what situations namespaces can be useful in git?
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In GitLab, a namespace provides one place to organize your related projects. Projects in one namespace are separate from projects in other namespaces, which means you can use the same name for projects in different namespaces.
A namespace allows you to effectively manage a collection of repositories, including repository permissions and repository attributes. This topic describes the basic operations on a namespace.
It could be useful for a Git service like GitHub or git.kernel.org where a repository is forked many times. Each fork is almost identical, so if only one object store is used for all forks then the service might enjoy considerable space savings and cache performance improvements.
The service could implement this via a lightweight wrapper around Git that automatically prepends the name of the repository to the GIT_NAMESPACE value.
Other than that, I'm not sure why one would use namespaces.
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