Re: Using trees for metatagging

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20100218232523.GD22371@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <32541b131002181506v1d28526cpf8491994868272af@mail.gmail.com>

also sprach Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> [2010.02.19.1206 +1300]:

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> > 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.
> 
> I think you're using the wrong definition of hacky vs. elegant.  A
> "tree" is really just a file containing a list of objects.  A "ref" is
> just a file that contains an object id.
>
> So checking in a file that contains a list of object ids (or
> filenames) is perfectly appropriate.

Indeed. But Git provides a lot of tools to manipulate all those, which I would not be able to reuse in the text-file approach.

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