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Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 11, 2007, 07:24 UTC
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On 6/11/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > The annotations are tracked in a new ref, refs/annotations/commits,
> > in the same fan-out style as .git/objects/??/*, only that they only
> > exist in the object database now.
>
> Isn't this abusing the refs namespace a bit?  Why not
> .git/annotations/... instead?
>

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.

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Message 15 of 18 in “Introduce light weight commit annotations”
  1. Introduce light weight commit annotationsJohannes Schindelin, Jun 9, 2007
  2. Johan HerlandJun 10, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJun 10, 2007
  4. Johan HerlandJun 10, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 10, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 10, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 11, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinJun 12, 2007
  11. Alex RiesenJun 10, 2007
  12. Alex RiesenJun 10, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2007
  14. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2007
  15. Alex RiesenJun 11, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2007
  17. Alex RiesenJun 11, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinJun 11, 2007

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