From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:27:35 GMT Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] Parse commit object header correctly Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120209175158.GA7384@burratino> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > No.  There is one list of supported headers, and this list is the > standards body that maintains it[*].  So if you end up needing an > extension to the commit object format, that can be done, but it needs > to be accepted here (and ideally checked by "git fsck", though it's > lagging a bit in that respect lately). > > [*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138848/focus=138892 Doesn't this deserve a document in Documentation/technical? It's also a good opportunity to document tree and tag object format in addition to commit object. I did not check thoroughly but the commit that introduced encoding field, 4b2bced, did not come with any document updates, so I assume it has not been documented ever since. -- Duy