Subject: Re: [RFC] Plumbing-only support for storing object metadata

From: Marcus Griep <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:23:51 -0400

Derek Fawcus wrote:
> My other hacky thought was that tag object could be overloaded for
> this purpose.  It is already sort of an indirect object,  but seems
> to be limited to appearing at the edge of the graph.
> 
> If we could say have:
> 
>   commit -> tag -> tree
> 
> then arbitrary data could be stored in the tag,  similarly this
> could be extended for when a tree or blob object is expected
> (I'm not sure about the blob case).

I was under the impression that tags were references to commit objects,
and they to tree objects:

tag -> commit -> tree

Also, wouldn't this require large numbers tags, or the ability to multi-
target tags?

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