On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Notes are fundamenally metainformation about an _object_ [*1*] and are not
> metainformation about refs. Since whatever magic notation to denote notes
> we choose wants to be applied to an arbitrary commit, it shouldn't be the
> at-brace syntax.
Makes sense. ^{note[:namespace]} is ok for me too btw, although maybe
it looks a little off-base when compared with the tag indicator ^{}
which works, in a sense, in the opposite direction.
> [Footnote]
>
> *1* Yes, I am aware of movements to misuse notes to annotate anything
> after mapping it to a random SHA-1 value, but I think that is outside the
> scope of notes. Our design decision should be based on supporting the
> primary use of annotating an object, and that might still keep such a use
> working, in which case that would be an added bonus. But our design
> shouldn't be constrained by such a secondary use.
BTW, I still think that notes should be attachable to named refs (not
SHA-1, thus) too.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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