From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:32:30 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] notes: support fetching notes from an external repo Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <69fd9dcf-7769-6c5c-ca0e-ea61e6d616d9@oracle.com> Vegard Nossum writes: >> My gut reaction is that I am not interested at all in the above >> approach, even though the problem you are trying to solve is >> interesting. Mostly because notes are not the only decorations your >> users may want. What if you want to "log --decorate" their >> repository contents with your own tags that annotate their commits? >> A notes-only approach to mix repositories is way too narrow. > ... > To be clear, are you saying there is no way you would ever take my > patches in their current form, Correct. > Just to provide a bit more background: These two patches are just the > first two in a bigger project to make extensive use of git notes to > provide added value to the whole Linux kernel community ... I already said that the problem being solved is interesting. The fact that a solution aims to address a problem worth solving does not diminish the need for the solution to be sensibly designed, and I again already said that an approach to special case notes ref specially is unwanted. Thanks.