On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:25 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > also sprach Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> [2010.02.19.1206 +1300]: >> 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. But you're talking about using a nonstandard approach anyway (unless you use git-notes). So you'd end up rolling your own code with git's plumbing anyway, which you can do just as easily with a text file full of object ids. Once you have an object id, there are plenty of existing git commands to do whatever you want. Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html