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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:28:09 -0700
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On 07/12/2013 11:16 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> This relates to the "a posteori metadata" problem with git.  In theory I
> think git notes should handle those, but I have to admit that git notes
> somewhat creep me out because there doesn't seem to be any version
> control on them, and as far as I can tell there is only one note per object.
> 

OK, just read up some more on git notes, and *both* the assumptions I
had made about git notes were fundamentally wrong.  Not sure how well
they would scale, though, but stuffing metadata like additional
Acked-by:, Tested-by: and Cc: stable into notes seems more viable after
reading the spec.

	-hpa


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