From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:15:45 GMT
Subject: Re: extra headers in commit objects
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002031311010.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100203174041.GC14799@spearce.org>

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Am I correct that core C developers are still under the opinion
> that extra headers in a commit object aren't encouraged?

I would say so.

[...]
> At the end of the day, is it a bug that C git doesn't support
> working with extra commit headers?  IMHO, no, because, we've
> rejected these in the past, and its not part of the Git standard.
> And other implementations shouldn't be trying to sell it that way.

Agreed.  And this was discussed in great length on this list on few 
occasions already (probably more than a year back).


Nicolas