From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:20:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Notes idea.
Message-ID: <7voczaobhb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812171233270.28560@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> ...  But the main point 
> still stands: you go from commit to note, not from note to commit.  And 
> this is in stark contrast to tags, where you go from tag to commit, _not_ 
> from commit to tag.
>
> That is a fundamental _difference_ between tags and notes, so that I 
> refuse to accept the notion of notes being a generalized form of tags.

Hmm, how would you explain things like "git describe" (and "name-rev")?