From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:39:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 08/12] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
Message-ID: <20090827233900.GA7347@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200908280103.06015.johan@herland.net>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:03:05AM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

> Agreed. I'm starting to come around to the idea of storing them in subtrees 
> based on commit dates. For one, you don't have multiple notes for one commit 
> in the same notes tree. Also, the common-case access pattern seems tempting.
> 
> Dscho: Were there other problems with the date-based approach other than not 
> supporting notes on trees and blobs?
> 
> If not, I'll start preparing another series with the date-based approach.

Would you ever want to load a note for a commit when you did not have
that commit present (in which case you would not know its date)?

-Peff