From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:00:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow
Message-ID: <20110301220053.GB23945@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1298665854.27129.25.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:30:54PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:

> > So your commit template looks like:
> > 
> >   subject
> > 
> >   commit message body
> >   ---
> >   notes data
> > 
> >   # usual template stuff
> > 
> > I'm curious what people think. Do others find this useful? Does it seem
> > harmful?
> > 
> 
> I'm in agreement with the others that it doesn't seem like a bad idea,
> and likely a good one. Just one thing, can you add an end-of-note
> delimiter (the same thing perhaps)? I didn't spend a long time looking
> at the code, but I can imagine more than a few ways for this to go wrong
> without one.

We could add one pretty easily, but I'm not sure what you would be
delimiting it from. Can you describe a case where it would be useful?

-Peff