From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:06:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Using trees for metatagging
Message-ID: <32541b131002181506v1d28526cpf8491994868272af@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100218225758.GL9756@lapse.rw.madduck.net>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:57 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> I am aware of notes, but so far I stayed away from them, simply
> because it seems hackish to represent tag trees as text when dealing
> with a tool that is essentially all about trees and refs.

I think you're using the wrong definition of hacky vs. elegant.  A
"tree" is really just a file containing a list of objects.  A "ref" is
just a file that contains an object id.

So checking in a file that contains a list of object ids (or
filenames) is perfectly appropriate.

Have fun,

Avery