Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 07:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbqfnrl54.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0706110024mf975011t27b23555f6a23cc6@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> It is still a reference, really. Besides, if it is not under refs/, we'd
> have to change fetch/push to allow distribution of the notes/annotations
> (there are special assumptions regarding reference names starting
> with "refs/"). Right now it just works.

Two issues.

One is that it is unclear is how the reachability rules should be. Should an ??/?{38} entry in the refs/annotations/commits protects the commit the entry talks about (i.e. ???{38}) from getting pruned?

Another is how different kinds of annotations on the same commit should be managed. Should different commits and their histories pointed at by refs/annotations/{frotz,xyzzy,...} be used for that? Or perhaps we should make ??/?{38} a tree that has multiple files underneath it?