Re: [PATCHv4 08/12] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes

> Yea, it was me.  I still think it might be a useful idea, since
> it allows you better density of loading notes when parsing the
> recent commits.  In theory the last 256 commits can easly be in
> each of the 2/ fanout buckets, making 2/38 pointless for reducing
> the search space.  Commit date on the other hand can probably force
> all of them into the same bucket, making it easy to have the last
> 256 commits in cache, from a single bucket.
>
> But I thought you shot it down, by saying that we also wanted to
> support notes on blobs.  I happen to see no value in a note on
> a blob, a blob alone doesn't make much sense without at least an
> annotated tag or commit to provide it some named context, and the
> latter two have dates.