Re: [PATCH] Reuse previous annotation when overwriting a tag

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:54:38AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Why not teach write_annotations() (or write_tag_body() like I would prefer 
it to be called) to grok a null_sha1?  It's not like we care for 
performance here, but rather for readability and ease of use.

By the way, I think it would be much better if this function was made
more generic and would not write, but return an strbuf containing the
object body. It could also be used by e.g. git-commit --amend.

What would be the best suited place for such a function ?

Mike