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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:27:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071103122707.GA7227@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711031148460.4362@racer.site>

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:54:38AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Why not teach write_annotations() (or write_tag_body() like I would prefer 
> it to be called) to grok a null_sha1?  It's not like we care for 
> performance here, but rather for readability and ease of use.

By the way, I think it would be much better if this function was made
more generic and would not write, but return an strbuf containing the
object body. It could also be used by e.g. git-commit --amend.

What would be the best suited place for such a function ?

Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-03 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03  9:31 [PATCH] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-03 12:10   ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 12:23     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-03 13:08       ` [PATCH 1/2] " Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 13:08         ` [PATCH 2/2] Small code readability improvement in show_reference() in builtin-tag.c Mike Hommey
2007-11-07 21:51           ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 18:47         ` [PATCH 1/2] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag Junio C Hamano
2007-11-03 19:55           ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-04  0:11           ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-04  0:11             ` [PATCH 2/2] Add tests for git tag Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 12:27   ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-11-03 12:36     ` [PATCH] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-03 13:10       ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 13:22         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-03 13:59           ` Mike Hommey

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