Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706111121120.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706102206590.12885@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Nicolas Pitre 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?

In the way I planned it, it is not at all abusing the refs namespace. These annotations _are_ tracked in a proper branch. Only that the "file names" in the tree objects actually refer to commit names.

Ciao, Dscho