From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:24:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706110024mf975011t27b23555f6a23cc6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706102206590.12885@xanadu.home>

On 6/11/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> 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.