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Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2005, 18:32 UTC
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Chuck Lever wrote:
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> yay!  are you also proposing some git tools to deal with these?  it 
> would be great to have some version control (keep these like generation 
> files so we can see the history of revisions).
> 
> A Large Angry SCM wrote:
>> GIT Repository Annotation Convention
[...]
I'm not proposing any new tools, just a convention that existing tools 
or tools that others may create can adopt to provide information to a 
repositories users. Some existing tools that could use the annotations are:
	git-branch
	git-show-branch
	gitweb
There are likely others.

Like any other file under $GIT_DIR, these files are not automatically versioned. Rather, each repository maintainer, needs to decide how a repository's meta-data (project meta-meta-data) is tracked or generated.

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  1. Santi BéjarSep 6, 2005
  2. A Large Angry SCMSep 6, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  4. [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation ConventionA Large Angry SCM, Sep 8, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  6. A Large Angry SCMSep 8, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsSep 11, 2005
  8. A Large Angry SCMSep 11, 2005
  9. Matthias UrlichsSep 13, 2005
  10. A Large Angry SCMSep 8, 2005
  11. A Large Angry SCMSep 9, 2005

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