From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:10:36 GMT
Subject: Re: git notes primer?
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