From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Git Notes idea. Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:20:00 -0800 Message-ID: <7voczaobhb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <5d46db230812160015t55b4ff2fubbf1e2f826a97b98@mail.gmail.com> <20081216085108.GA3031@coredump.intra.peff.net> <5d46db230812161043m4a5873a8w4c323d634b639ba0@mail.gmail.com> <5d46db230812161815s1c48af9dwc96a4701fb2a669b@mail.gmail.com> <20081217101110.GC18265@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Govind Salinas , Git Mailing List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 17 20:21:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LD1xa-0002S0-HH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:21:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751101AbYLQTUM (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:20:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751169AbYLQTUM (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:20:12 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:59991 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbYLQTUL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:20:11 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FA51A7F4; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:20:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4DCE11A7EF; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:20:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:38:53 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B78ECF2E-CC6F-11DD-B8D7-F83E113D384A-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > ... But the main point > still stands: you go from commit to note, not from note to commit. And > this is in stark contrast to tags, where you go from tag to commit, _not_ > from commit to tag. > > That is a fundamental _difference_ between tags and notes, so that I > refuse to accept the notion of notes being a generalized form of tags. Hmm, how would you explain things like "git describe" (and "name-rev")?