From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:04:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits
Message-ID: <f3givk$1sn$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070529032221.GE7044@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Which is why we:
> 
>   a) allow these things to migrate into packed-refs, because
>   getting into there is a hellva lot cheaper than getting into
>   a packfile;
> 
>   b) move them into a packfile when we repack loose objects,
>   because then we have really good access.
> 
>   c) take them out of packed-refs once they are into a packfile,
>   and get them out of the loose refs/notes directory as early as
>   possible.

Three-tier layout? Loose note refs -> packed refs -> packfile? 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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