Re: Using trees for metatagging

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20100218225758.GL9756@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <201002182200.09100.johan@herland.net>

also sprach Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> [2010.02.19.1000 +1300]:

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> Take a look at the (relatively) new notes feature. (See the
> jh/notes series in 'pu' and various recent discussions on this
> mailing list.) Git notes probably won't satisfy the exact
> requirements you list above, but it _does_ tackle some parallel
> issues (e.g. how to maintain a tree that is not checked out,
> storing metadata associated with Git objects, etc.). If you take
> a step back and reconsider your original problem, you might find
> that it's solvable by using commit notes.
> 
> For example, you could add a simple note to each blob that has
> been reviewed, on the refs/notes/reviewed notes ref. You could
> then write a simple script (using "git notes list") that lists all
> blobs (i.e. files) without a corresponding note in
> refs/notes/reviewed.

I am aware of notes, but so far I stayed away from them, simply because it seems hackish to represent tag trees as text when dealing with a tool that is essentially all about trees and refs.

Can I use notes to append information to blobs and trees, or just commit objects?

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