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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> I don't think this buys you anything, because then the tag needs to be
> accessible from something, which is the same problem you were trying to
> solve for the commit.

Actually not.  My suggestion was a qualified one: "If all you
need is a textual information plus a single pointer to a commit
object", and Martin did not say different generations of arch
metainfo needs to be strung together, so you could keep updating
the tag object in "refs/tags/arch-meta-info", which has such a
pointer and textual arch meta info and nothing else.