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Re: Finer timestamps and serialization in git

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
May 16, 2019, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID
<20190516003522.GD124956@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>:
> You put it key-values in the commit message and read it back out via
> git-interpret-trailers.

Speaking as a person who has done a lot of repository migrations, this makes me shudder. It's fragile, kludgy, and does not maintain proper separation of concerns.

The feature I *didn't* ask for at the next format break is a user-modifiable key-value store per commit that is *not* in the commit comment. Bzr has this. It's useful.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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