From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:55:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Extra metadata in the commit?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904250154080.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0904241547p64c0af2bycae20cd4b26e43f6@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Scott Chacon wrote:

> 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.

I'd suggest keeping it in the commit body, for better visibility and 
easier handling by tools.

Ciao,
Dscho