Re: git-note -C changes commit type?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:

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There is currently no way the "git notes" commands will allow you to
store the 3d7de37 commit object directly as a note. There is also
(AFAICS) no easy workaround (git fast-import could've been a
workaround if it did not already require the first N/notemodify
argument to be a blob object). The best alternative, off the top of my
head, would be to write your own program using the notes.h API to
manipulate the notes tree directly (or - suboptimally - use other
low-level Git operations to do the same).

Even worse. I do not think such a non-blob object in the notes tree
does not participate in the reachability at all, so you won't be
able to fetch "refs/notes/whatever" and expect to get a useful
result.

s/non-blob/non-(blob-or-tree)/

Any object type that is deemed reachable by reference from a regular
git tree object will also be usable (as far as reachability goes) in a
notes tree.

I do not think storing the raw bits of commit object as a
blob in the notes tree is useful behaviour, either.  The command
probably should refuse to get anything non-blob via that option.

Patch coming up...

Perhaps the notes entry should just note the object name of whatever
commit it wants to refer to in a *blob*?

Agreed.

...Johan

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Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
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