Re: Storing additional information in commit headers

also sprach Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] [2011.08.01.2201 +0200]:

Notes are tracked using a 'branch' too. It's just a branch in the
refs/notes namespace, the notes ref. You could simply tag your
notes ref or point a ref from the refs/heads namespace to it each
time you create new notes.

Hi Clemens, thanks for responding!

You suggest integrating refs/notes/foo into refs/heads by means of
a pointer… at which point we are polluting the branch history space
again (think gitk), no?

I appreciate the simplicity of this idea of yours, which I had not
thought of. Indeed, maintaining a head at the top of
refs/notes/topgit-metadata (or whatever) has charm. I do not mean to
discard it at all right now, and will think about this more!

git-notes was designed to be used for such cases, I was pleased to
note the configurability. Maybe it is the ticket.

Still: why not commit headers?

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