From: Ted Ts'o Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:51:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Signed push Message-ID: <20110911155146.GA15820@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <7v4o0jq2fx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:42:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Perhaps we shouldn't worry about tag namespace contamination to make > things easier and simpler and stop using notes tree? With the appropriate conventions, such as using a tag name such as signed--" we can at least avoid name conflicts, at least for all practical purposes. There is the additional problem that "git tag -l" gets painful. At least for me, though, it's already mostly useless: % git tag -l | grep ^v[23] | wc -l 858 I can work around this with git aliases that filter out certain prefixes that I normally don't care about, but maybe that's something that should be directly supported in git-tag with some git-config parameters. The final issue that I'd worry about with using tags is performance. If we have hundreds of thousands or millions of tags of the form signed--, is this going to be a problem? This does seem like something that could be worked around --- in the worst case there could just be a locally maintained reverse index from git commit id's to tag names. (Although as I recall Linus objected to having something like this for time skews, so maybe he'd object to this too.) - Ted