Re: Storing (hidden) per-commit metadata

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 21, 2010, 08:49 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002210945490.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100221063433.GA2840@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> If the only problem is that the data is ugly in "git show", then perhaps 
> we need a "suppress these pseudo-headers" feature for showing logs. It 
> keeps them easily available for inspection or for --grep, but most of 
> the time you would not see them.

Whoa. Even more processing to do for each commit during a "git log" run? You know, other people are working on _accelerating_ git log as we speak!

And really, while I can understand that the OP wanted to hide the information, I am really against that. For example, when I see a log with git-svn footers, it gives me _additional_ information which I actually like (it tells me where these commits really come from). If they do not need bidirectional, they can skip those footers.

But I do agree that it is better to put the information into the same objects rather than notes, lest the information get out-of-sync.

Ciao, Dscho