From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:57:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Geolocation support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > In case I was not clear, I do not think it is likely for us to accept > a patch that mucks with object header fields with this information. > Have them in the log text and let UI interpret them. We've already told clients for a long time to ignore fields they don't know about, why would we not store what's intended to be machine-readable key-value pair data in the commit object itself, as opposed to sticking it in the log message where parsing it is always going to be a bit more tricky & distracting, since users will have to look at this arbitrary metadata when they do "git log" or "git show".