Re: Extra metadata in the commit?

> I'm working on a hg<->git bidirectional tool using Git as the 
> communication protocol, so there is a bunch of Hg metadata that I need 
> to keep in Git to ensure I can convert commits created in Hg back into 
> the exact same objects after they upload to the Git db and then come 
> back down.  This means storing explicit rename info, branch names, etc 
> somewhere without messing up Git clients that want to work on the same 
> repo.  So, I can keep this data in the commit message, but I thought it 
> would be cleaner to keep it as extra fields in the commit object before 
> the "\n\n" separator.