On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Would the notes mechanism be able to annotate ref names instead of
commit sha1?

That would be a horrible, horrible notion.

It's quite common to have multiple branches with the same SHA1. It
might be in the "experimental-development" branch, but it got through
testing with flying colors and deemed to be stable, so it got upgraded
to the "for-linus" branch, and there hasn't been any other development
since. So now both "for-linus" and "experimental-development" are the
same commit, but they are very much not the same branch!

So no, don't confuse branch *contents* with branch *descriptions*.

                          Linus