From: Sam Elliott <sam@lenary.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:27:03 GMT
Subject: New Proposal (simple) for Metadata in Git Commits: git-meta
Message-ID: <93857A5A-744E-4A7C-B42D-23A56A48AAF7@lenary.co.uk>

Hi,

I had this idea a day or so again, and have written a simple  
implementation to storing some semi-structured data in a git commit  
message. This means that it's much easier for data to be found and  
scraped from a certain commit, for instance what issue numbers commits  
refer to or close.

The entirety of the idea is expressed here: http://lenary.github.com/hackery/2009/12/git-meta/

I have so far built an implementation of a way to get the data out of  
a commit. I am still investigating how to get this info into the  
commit message before the git-commit command so that it doesn't have  
to be entirely hand-written.

I was just looking for feedback and to see whether the mailing list  
thinks this is a good idea or not? Any help would also be greatly  
appreciated.

Thanks!

Sam
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Sam Elliott
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