From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Notes idea.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812180407580.14632@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7voczaobhb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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")?

Programs?

Ciao,
Dscho