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Re: git notes primer?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2010, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID
<20100811051036.GA639@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<201008101040.07172.thomas@koch.ro>
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Koch wrote:
> Before I continue with my current design, I wanted to have a look at git 
> notes, whether it would provide better mechanisms then tracking my meta 
> informations in a hidden background branch. (Much like pristine-tar does.)

“git notes” associates arbitrary data to specific objects (blobs, trees, commits, annotated tags). If your metainformation is per-branch rather than per-commit, then notes will probably not help you.

Feel free to be inspired by their design, though. :)

Regards, Jonathan

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