From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:08:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Extra metadata in the commit?
Message-ID: <200904251408.22410.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904250154080.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Saturday 25 April 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Scott Chacon wrote:
> > So, I can keep this data in the commit message, but I thought it
> > would be cleaner to keep it as extra fields in the commit object before
> > the "\n\n" separator.
>
> I'd suggest keeping it in the commit body, for better visibility and
> easier handling by tools.

Or even better: Keep it in separate commit notes (provided you can wait for 
the js/notes topic in pu to make it into a release). If you add the notes 
with GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/notes/hg_metadata, you will also keep them nicely 
out of the way of everybody else.

(I'm using this approach when building a bidirectional CVS <-> Git helper on 
top of Barkalow's foreign-scm topic).


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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