From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:03:57 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] New commit object headers: generation and note headers Message-ID: <7vlk5tetaa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" writes: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> >> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> > 2. 'note' header (no semantical meaning) >> > >> > There was some time ago discussion about adding 'note' header, initially >> > to save original sha-1 of a commit for cherry-picking and rebase; then >> > for saving explicit rename or corrected rename info, for saving chosen >> > merge strategy, and for saving original ID of SCM import. >> >> Probably want to have a prescribed syntax for specifying what note this >> is, so that different programs using notes don't confuse each other. > > How about git ignoring all X- headers and let programs freely add > them? For example, X-SVN may be used for git-svn. Please don't. When two people/programs create an otherwise identical (for the purpose of git) commits that have two different object names, there'd better be a very good reason other than "I felt like adding an extra header that I can use willy-nilly". Please separate the 'note' part and the 'generation' part and make two separate discussion threads. And kill 'note' part altogether, but that can be done in that thread ;-).