Re: New Proposal (simple) for Metadata in Git Commits: git-meta

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 16, 2009, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20091216163036.GE18319@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7349A827-41D5-434F-85FE-D49980A7D501@lenary.co.uk>

Sam Elliott <sam@lenary.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 15 Dec 2009, at 23:05, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> If you dropped the --git-meta-- tags above, JGit would happily
>> recognize the awesome: and Github: tags, but it might need a bit
>> more work to recognize the nested user: tag.  Also, you'd be able
>> to use git-meta on the git and Linux kernel repositories to pull
>> out and work with Signed-off-by, Acked-by, etc.
>
> I'm not entirely sure about this approach. The current implementation  
> also works with PGP-signed tags, where the information is not  
> necessarily going to be at the bottom of the message when i use `git- 
> cat-file -p`. I think it shouldn't be too hard to also have git-meta  
> read any YAML-like data just before the signing message.

Ah, good point. But as you point out, it should be simple enough to detect a PGP signature on the bottom and just clip that off the end, and then perform the YAML-like data parsing on the footer.

-- 
Shawn.