From: Max Horn Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:47:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for commit attributes Message-ID: <934D49AB-0E6B-4DF8-A67C-CE311561378E@quendi.de> In-Reply-To: <5346d4adf4f_69dfeb32f0b9@nysa.notmuch> On 10.04.2014, at 19:28, Felipe Contreras wrote: > 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 . Cheers, Max