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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: "on for all" configuration of
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:27:04PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
> Document how to enable rewriting for all notes.

Hmm. Is this a safe thing to recommend?

I think the idea of storing something like generation numbers in
git-notes is dead at this point, but it would be quite disastrous to
have generation numbers copied to rebased commits. Ditto for something
like a patch-id cache. Should these sorts of immutable cache notes, if
and when they do come about, go into a separate hierarchy?

-Peff