Re: working prototype of orphan parent commits as datastores (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Aug 2, 2011, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20110802192631.GA20239@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110802190923.GB16674@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2011.08.02.2109 +0200]:

> Yes, absolutely. However, this would no longer be the case if
> x-*-ref could be used. Right now, I am just using orphan parent
> commits to avoid garbage collection.

refs/heads/master is a file, containing its payload in the first line by format definition, right?

I mean: the storage is right there, isn't it?

Of course this opens a whole new can of worms: merging per-ref data.

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