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Re: Storing additional information in commit headers

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2011, 19:33 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> For lack of a better idea (cf. [0]), I am currently toying with the
> following approach:
Hi Martin!

What data are you trying to include? Some time ago, I had similar ideas to yours for a while... and it ended up being that all I needed was to put the additional data /in a file/ and commit that file.

Speculation: you mention distro packaging, so I assume you're
improving the Debian packaging integration, with git tracking
debian/rules, perhaps with a wrapper. If you are using a wrapper
program, it is trivial to update this "metadata" file, or to ensure
it's valid/sane, in the preparations to commit, perhaps ensuring that
a pre-commit-hook script is in place and executable.
hth,
m
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  1. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2011
  3. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  4. Clemens BuchacherAug 1, 2011
  5. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
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  7. Martin LanghoffAug 1, 2011
  8. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  9. Jeff KingAug 1, 2011
  10. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  11. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  12. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  13. working prototype of orphan parent commits as datastores (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  14. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
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  17. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  18. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  19. per-ref data storage (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  20. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  21. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  22. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  23. Michael HaggertyAug 2, 2011

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