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Re: Storing state in $GIT_DIR

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 26, 2005, 05:52 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> I don't think this buys you anything, because then the tag needs to be
> accessible from something, which is the same problem you were trying to
> solve for the commit.

Actually not. My suggestion was a qualified one: "If all you need is a textual information plus a single pointer to a commit object", and Martin did not say different generations of arch metainfo needs to be strung together, so you could keep updating the tag object in "refs/tags/arch-meta-info", which has such a pointer and textual arch meta info and nothing else.

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  1. Martin LanghoffAug 25, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsAug 25, 2005
  3. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 26, 2005
  5. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowAug 26, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsAug 26, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsAug 27, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  12. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  13. Eric W. BiedermanAug 26, 2005
  14. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  15. Eric W. BiedermanAug 26, 2005
  16. Accept -m and friends for initial commits and merge commits.Junio C Hamano, Aug 26, 2005
  17. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005

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