From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:42:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Survey] Signed push
Message-ID: <vpqhb4f5dwe.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyGRM132OzoJR7wZ8wETvxrFWSmSMjMJnVOKP+6vys-Sw@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Would the notes mechanism be able to annotate ref names instead of
>> commit sha1?
>
> That would be a horrible, horrible notion.
>
> It's quite common to have multiple branches with the same SHA1. 

That's why my question was about annotating ref _names_, yes. As Johan
Herland pointed out, this would be possible in theory, but not really in
practice.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/