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From: Marcus Griep <neoeinstein@gmail.com>
To: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Plumbing-only support for storing object metadata
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:23:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AA0487.8050009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080818230646.GA11044@cisco.com>

Derek Fawcus wrote:
> My other hacky thought was that tag object could be overloaded for
> this purpose.  It is already sort of an indirect object,  but seems
> to be limited to appearing at the edge of the graph.
> 
> If we could say have:
> 
>   commit -> tag -> tree
> 
> then arbitrary data could be stored in the tag,  similarly this
> could be extended for when a tree or blob object is expected
> (I'm not sure about the blob case).

I was under the impression that tags were references to commit objects,
and they to tree objects:

tag -> commit -> tree

Also, wouldn't this require large numbers tags, or the ability to multi-
target tags?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-18 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09 21:07 [RFC] Plumbing-only support for storing object metadata Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett
2008-08-09 21:49 ` Scott Chacon
2008-08-10  3:51   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-10 11:20     ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-10 12:16       ` david
2008-08-10 14:50         ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-10 17:57           ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-10 18:11             ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-10 20:16               ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-10 22:34                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-10 23:10                   ` david
2008-08-11 10:11                     ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-10 11:09 ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-16  6:21   ` Josh Triplett, Jamey Sharp
2008-08-16  7:56     ` david
2008-08-16  9:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-16 15:07       ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-18  6:12     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-18 23:06       ` Derek Fawcus
2008-08-18 23:18         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-18 23:23         ` Marcus Griep [this message]
2008-08-18 23:28           ` Shawn O. Pearce

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