From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:38:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <20121129103847.GA9264@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3ShoR7iR5QLYn_u+u_nNGnS1jumpt+iseWYKx0PX9UEA@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Would having arbitrary key value pairs be useful in the git data
> >> model?
> >
> > My answer to the question is that it is harmful to the data model,
> > but the benefit of going against the data model _may_ outweigh the
> > downside.  It is all relative.
> 
> If git doesn't provide the capability, people will keep using the
> commit message to store that extra information, which I would think is
> even more harmful. An standard 'commit-extra' note or something would
> help deal with that.

Agreed.  

My use case for a capability like this is one of the more common ones.
I want to be able to store a fossil commit-ID inherited from another
VCS outside the commit comment.  The absence of a key/value store forces
me into some annoying kludges.
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