From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: generation numbers (was: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up git tag
 --contains)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:01:03 -0400
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Is it worth it to try to replicate this information across repositories?

Why not just simply have a cache file in the git directory which is
managed somewhat like gitk.cache; call it generation.cache?

						- Ted