Re: [StGit PATCH] Parse commit object header correctly

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2012, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHkRjk6dr=5wxm+iSC2_CSB-q3k2WG_Um+X7dwsy-H8tL508EA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd39pzsmq.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi Junio,

On 8 February 2012 07:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> To allow parsing the header produced by versions of Git newer than the
> code written to parse it, all commit parsers are expected to skip unknown
> header lines, so that newer types of header lines can be added safely.
> The only three things that are promised are:
>
>  (1) the header ends with an empty line (just an LF, not "a blank line"),
>  (2) unknown lines can be skipped, and
>  (3) a header "field" begins with the field name, followed by a single SP
>     followed by the value.

Thanks for looking into this. Is this the same as an email header? If yes, we could just use the python's email.Header.decode_header() function (I haven't tried yet).

BTW, does Git allow custom headers to be inserted by tools like StGit?

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Catalin