On 07/07/2011 04:31 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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?
Are the benefits really worth all these hacks?
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