From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:22:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3ShoR7iR5QLYn_u+u_nNGnS1jumpt+iseWYKx0PX9UEA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7va9u0sx26.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Would having arbitrary key value pairs be useful in the git data
>> model?
>
> My answer to the question is that it is harmful to the data model,
> but the benefit of going against the data model _may_ outweigh the
> downside.  It is all relative.

If git doesn't provide the capability, people will keep using the
commit message to store that extra information, which I would think is
even more harmful. An standard 'commit-extra' note or something would
help deal with that.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras