From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:16:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <20121129061650.GB25537@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <E4C993F4-B7A4-4CB6-A9EA-BFE98BE3A381@gmail.com>

Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com>:
> Would having arbitrary key value pairs be useful in the git data
> model?  We could have ones that affect the sha1 and others that are
> transparent.

My tools would have several uses for these.

bzr's implementation of import streams has a commit-propperties extension.
reposurgeon can read, display.. and manipulate these key/value pairs.
I do wish they were in core git.
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