Re: Using trees for metatagging

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also sprach Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> [2010.02.19.1206 +1300]:
> > I am aware of notes, but so far I stayed away from them, simply
> > because it seems hackish to represent tag trees as text when dealing
> > with a tool that is essentially all about trees and refs.
> 
> I think you're using the wrong definition of hacky vs. elegant.  A
> "tree" is really just a file containing a list of objects.  A "ref" is
> just a file that contains an object id.
>
> So checking in a file that contains a list of object ids (or
> filenames) is perfectly appropriate.

Indeed. But Git provides a lot of tools to manipulate all those,
which I would not be able to reuse in the text-file approach.

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