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Re: Storing additional information in commit headers

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Aug 1, 2011, 20:01 UTC
Message-ID
<20110801200149.GA20861@toss>
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<20110801183411.GA5182@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:34:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>
> Yes, I have considered git-notes. The issue I have with git-notes is
> that it requires every contributor to set up refspecs for fetch and
> push, or else the notes will not be exchanged/shared.

Notes are tracked using a 'branch' too. It's just a branch in the refs/notes namespace, the notes ref. You could simply tag your notes ref or point a ref from the refs/heads namespace to it each time you create new notes.

> Also, git-notes are mutable (at least from the UI perspectiv) and
> I strive to encode information immutably.

Notes are also used by textconv, for example, to cache immutable data. It's not likely a user will end up editing it by accident unless you use the default notes ref.

Clemens
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Message 4 of 23 in “Storing additional information in commit headers”
  1. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2011
  3. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  4. Clemens BuchacherAug 1, 2011
  5. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  6. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  7. Martin LanghoffAug 1, 2011
  8. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  9. Jeff KingAug 1, 2011
  10. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  11. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  12. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  13. working prototype of orphan parent commits as datastores (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  14. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  15. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  16. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  17. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  18. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  19. per-ref data storage (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  20. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  21. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  22. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  23. Michael HaggertyAug 2, 2011

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