Subject: Re: Fwd: [Survey] Signed push

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:42:25 +0200

Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <[email-masked]> 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. 

That's why my question was about annotating ref _names_, yes. As Johan
Herland pointed out, this would be possible in theory, but not really in
practice.

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Matthieu Moy
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