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Re: [PATCH] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 3, 2007, 12:27 UTC
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<20071103122707.GA7227@glandium.org>
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:54:38AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Why not teach write_annotations() (or write_tag_body() like I would prefer 
> it to be called) to grok a null_sha1?  It's not like we care for 
> performance here, but rather for readability and ease of use.

By the way, I think it would be much better if this function was made more generic and would not write, but return an strbuf containing the object body. It could also be used by e.g. git-commit --amend.

What would be the best suited place for such a function ?
Mike
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  1. Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tagMike Hommey, Nov 3, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 3, 2007
  3. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinNov 3, 2007
  5. 1/2 Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tagMike Hommey, Nov 3, 2007
  6. 2/2 Small code readability improvement in show_reference() in builtin-tag.cMike Hommey, Nov 3, 2007
  7. Mike HommeyNov 7, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2007
  9. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  10. 1/2 Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tagMike Hommey, Nov 4, 2007
  11. 2/2 Add tests for git tagMike Hommey, Nov 4, 2007
  12. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinNov 3, 2007
  14. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  15. Johannes SchindelinNov 3, 2007
  16. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007

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