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Re: [PATCH] Add support for commit attributes

From
Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Date
Apr 10, 2014, 18:47 UTC
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On 10.04.2014, at 19:28, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Diego Lago wrote:
>> Commit attributes are custom commit extra headers the user can
>> add to the commit object.
>> 
>> The motivation for this patch is that in my company we have a custom
>> continuous integration software that uses a custom formatted commit
>> message (currently in YALM format) to show several information into
>> our CI server front-end.
> 
> These attributes can be used for remote-helpers as well; to store extra
> information that cannot be stored otherwise in Git's data structures.
+1 to that. This is reminds me of what Kiln Harmony does as part of their effort to enable full round-robin transfer between Git and Mercurial (a goal from which all other tools I know of still are far away). See <http://blog.fogcreek.com/kiln-harmony-internals-the-basics/>.

Cheers, Max

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Message 7 of 8 in “Add support for commit attributes”
  1. Add support for commit attributesDiego Lago, Apr 9, 2014
  2. Duy NguyenApr 10, 2014
  3. Diego Lago GonzálezApr 10, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014
  6. Felipe ContrerasApr 10, 2014
  7. Max HornApr 10, 2014
  8. Duy NguyenApr 10, 2014

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