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

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> editor.c, I'd say.