Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The "track it with pull/push" thing is NOT one such thing, however much 
> you protest. We already _have_ that thing. It's called a "ref", and it's 
> really really easy to create anywhere in .git/refs/, and the tools already 
> know how to use it.

Btw, there are other cases for that. For example, "parent" is a 
well-specified thing that actually has very clear and unambiguous meaning. 

And we had a much better proposals (in the sense that it had real 
suggested _meaning_ and semantics) over the last few months for things 
like sub-projects (trees that point to other commits) or last year a 
discussion about "container objects" (like the current tags, but listing 
multiple objects instead of just one).

All of which had clear and unambiguous semantics (but were not done for 
other reasons - maybe the sub-project still remains on the horizon, the 
"container objects" thing doesn't seem to have gone anywhere).

			Linus