Re: Attributes for commits

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Jun 9, 2007, 13:49 UTC
Message-ID: <200706091549.39383.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <466AA714.4050500@comcast.net>

On Saturday 09 June 2007, Paul Franz wrote:

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>     I am a ClearCase administrator and one of the things that I love 
> about it is the ability to assign attributes to versions of files. Is 
> there anybody thinking of adding the ability to assign attributes to a 
> commit? I ask because I was thinking about how I would move from 
> ClearCase to git and part of our process is to assign the BugNum 
> attribute to every checkin so that we can see what bugs have been fixed. 
> We also track the files checked in the bug tracking software to. Thus 
> giving us a two way linkage between repository and the bug tracking 
> system. This is VERY useful. And I was wondering if there are any 
> thought to this for commits.
> 
> Now, I will be honest it is possible that this has already been done (I 
> have not read all the documentation yet) and I am justing wasting 
> bandwidth. In which, please excuse my ignorance and tell me to just RTFM.

Well, we're sort of in the process of getting there. I posted an initial proof-of-concept implementation of git 'notes' a while back. Git notes is a general mechanism for providing free-form annotations on git objects after they've been created. My initial posting sparked a discussion [1], and I'm currently in the process of reimplementing the notes concept based on the outcome of that discussion.

So the thing you want will hopefully be in a future release.

Have fun!

...Johan

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=48540

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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