Re: A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata?

Jon Seymour [off-list ref] writes:

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As I see it, the existing use of notes is a special instance of a more
general metadata capability in which the metadata is constrained to be
a single blob. If notes continued to be constrained in this way, there
is no reason to change anything with respect to its current userspace
behaviour. That said, most of the plumbing which enabled notes could
be generalized to enable the arbitrary tree case [ which admittedly, I
have yet to sell successfully !]

In one sense, there is a sense in the merge issue doesn't exist. When
the maintainer publishes a tag no-one expects to have to deal with
downstream conflicting definitions of the tag. Likewise, if the
maintainer were to publish the /man and /html metadata trees (per my
previous example) for a release tag, anyone who received
/refs/metadata/doc would expect to receive the metadata trees as
published by the maintainer. Anyone who didn't wouldn't have to pull
/refs/metadata/doc.

I can see there are use cases where multiple parties might want to
contribute metadata and I do not currently have a good solution to
that problem, but that is not to say there isn't one - surely it is
just a question of applying a little intellect creatively?

Are you trying to repeat fail of Apple's / MacOS / HFS+ filesystem
data/resource forks, and Microsoft's Alternate Data Streams in git? :-)

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git