On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > You could "cheat" and instead of storing the sha1 of a blob object in > > the notes tree, use the lower 32 bits to store an actual value. I don't > > think that currently breaks any assumptions in the notes code, but it > > definitely is against the intent of it. > > I highly suspect that it would break fsck rather badly. You may not even > be able to repack a repository with such a notes tree. Well, we could (ab)use file mode to mark that what would be sha1 actually stores fixed-width content of a file, like we do with submodules. This technique is I think quite similar in idea to filesystems storing contents of small files in file inode, isn't it? -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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