Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] notes: support fetching notes from an external repo

Vegard Nossum [off-list ref] writes:

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My gut reaction is that I am not interested at all in the above
approach, even though the problem you are trying to solve is
interesting.  Mostly because notes are not the only decorations your
users may want.  What if you want to "log --decorate" their
repository contents with your own tags that annotate their commits?
A notes-only approach to mix repositories is way too narrow.

...
To be clear, are you saying there is no way you would ever take my
patches in their current form,

Correct.

Just to provide a bit more background: These two patches are just the
first two in a bigger project to make extensive use of git notes to
provide added value to the whole Linux kernel community ...

I already said that the problem being solved is interesting.  The
fact that a solution aims to address a problem worth solving does
not diminish the need for the solution to be sensibly designed,
and I again already said that an approach to special case notes ref
specially is unwanted.

Thanks.