Hi, On Tue, 29 May 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Tuesday 2007 May 29, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So you'd have to have a separate database. You could do it with a > > separate index file (or mixing it up with the "index v4" and doing it > > with a single index file that also contains normal objects), but the > > point is, it's going to be a real separate database. > > This is an off-the-wall suggestion; but why not use the object database > a bit more strongly than just for storing the notes? I alluded to the same yesterday. However, just before waking up, I had the same idea as you, using a branch. > So where a normal tree has > > 100644 blob 156e952df8603c72532bcda95ddcd3bcb16ec5fd somefile > > A "notes" tree would have > > 100644 blob 156e952df8603c72532bcda95ddcd3bcb16ec5fd $SHA1_OF_TARGET_COMMIT1 > 100644 blob 97e08b0ab483146cb8fff31138eaa828c24ac84f $SHA1_OF_TARGET_COMMIT2 Actually, just throw in one fan-out stage, and you should be fine, performance-wise. And what is best: you could merge notes from somebody else easily, _exactly_ because it is a proper branch now. Ciao, Dscho - 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
