> Quoting Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits > > > > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Johan Herland wrote: > > > > I've been working on combining tag objects and --decorate into a useful > > proof-of-concept that provides the after-the-fact commit annotations I > > requested above, and here's the result: > > Ok, looks fine to me. I do have a few questions: > - why don't you just let people name their notes, the same way we name > tags (and then actually using it as the note name?) > > Putting them in the refs/notes/ filesystem by their SHA1 seems a bit > wasteful, and it would seem that it could be quite nice to name the > notes some way? > > - This will probably scale horribly badly if you have tens of thousands > of notes, even when they are packed. Do we care? Maybe note names could include the object they point to? Would this help with the scalability too (i.e. only get names for objects we want)? -- MST - 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
