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Re: A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2010, 02:21 UTC
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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
> Furthermore, although we currently assume that all note objects are blobs, 
> someone (who?) has already suggested (as mentioned in the notes TODO list) 
> that a note object could also be a _tree_ object that can be unpacked/read 
> to reveal further "sub-notes".

I would advice you not to go there. How would you even _merge_ such a thing with other notes attached to the same object? What determines the path in that tree object?

Clueless ones can freely make misguided suggestions without thinking things through and make things unnecessarily complex without real gain. You do not have to listen to every one of them.

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