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Re: Feature request: Store comments on branches

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B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2009, 13:56 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 15:46, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/10/21 Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>:
>> What do others think about this? Would this be useful
>> for others, too?
>
> This feature is already being worked on as "git notes" -- see the "pu"
> branch, I think it's still in there, unless it has graduated to next;
> I forget now.

Really? I was under the impression that the nodes were meant to annotate commits, or more generally things with SHA-1 IDs. (commits, tress, blobs). The SHA-1 ID a branch uses to refer to its HEAD commit changes with every commit, and the branch itself doesn't have an ID, just a name.

// Ben
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  1. Patrick SchoenfeldOct 21, 2009
  2. Thomas AdamOct 21, 2009
  3. B Smith-MannschottOct 21, 2009
  4. Jeff KingOct 21, 2009
  5. Howard MillerOct 21, 2009
  6. Bill LearOct 21, 2009

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