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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using trees for metatagging
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:32:31 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:25 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> also sprach Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> [2010.02.19.1206 +1300]:
>> So checking in a file that contains a list of object ids (or
>> filenames) is perfectly appropriate.
>
> Indeed. But Git provides a lot of tools to manipulate all those,
> which I would not be able to reuse in the text-file approach.

But you're talking about using a nonstandard approach anyway (unless
you use git-notes).  So you'd end up rolling your own code with git's
plumbing anyway, which you can do just as easily with a text file full
of object ids.

Once you have an object id, there are plenty of existing git commands
to do whatever you want.

Have fun,

Avery