From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:23:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: "on for all" configuration of notes.rewriteRef
Message-ID: <20110907212310.GH13364@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <f415402994735a60664e1f9f85be490a68b25ed3.1315167848.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:27:04PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
> Document how to enable rewriting for all notes.

Hmm. Is this a safe thing to recommend?

I think the idea of storing something like generation numbers in
git-notes is dead at this point, but it would be quite disastrous to
have generation numbers copied to rebased commits. Ditto for something
like a patch-id cache. Should these sorts of immutable cache notes, if
and when they do come about, go into a separate hierarchy?

-Peff