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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:22:40 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The annotations are tracked in a new ref, refs/annotations/commits,
> > in the same fan-out style as .git/objects/??/*, only that they only
> > exist in the object database now.
> 
> Isn't this abusing the refs namespace a bit?  Why not 
> .git/annotations/... instead?

In the way I planned it, it is not at all abusing the refs namespace. 
These annotations _are_ tracked in a proper branch. Only that the "file 
names" in the tree objects actually refer to commit names.

Ciao,
Dscho