From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:33:38 GMT Subject: Re: Storing additional information in commit headers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110801182845.GA4303@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM, martin f krafft 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 --  martin.langhoff@gmail.com  martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff