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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using trees for metatagging
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:06:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b131002181506v1d28526cpf8491994868272af@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100218225758.GL9756@lapse.rw.madduck.net>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:57 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> I am aware of notes, but so far I stayed away from them, simply
> because it seems hackish to represent tag trees as text when dealing
> with a tool that is essentially all about trees and refs.

I think you're using the wrong definition of hacky vs. elegant.  A
"tree" is really just a file containing a list of objects.  A "ref" is
just a file that contains an object id.

So checking in a file that contains a list of object ids (or
filenames) is perfectly appropriate.

Have fun,

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18  4:12 Using trees for metatagging martin f krafft
2010-02-18 18:57 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-18 22:53   ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18 21:00 ` Johan Herland
2010-02-18 22:57   ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18 23:06     ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-02-18 23:25       ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18 23:32         ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-19  0:43     ` Johan Herland

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