Re: [RFC] Support for arbitrary tags in commits

From: Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at>
Date: Jan 11, 2011, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <edec2e42a531b00ffd6a2689095460d5.squirrel@webmail.hitco.org>
In-Reply-To: <201101111340.50508.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Hello Thomas,

thank you very much for the quick answer.

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>> The best way I've found (so far) is to put an additional header line in the
>> commit header that references an additional blob.
>
> This comes up every few months.  The last large discussion about this
> that we had IIRC was
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138848
>
> Can you please look through that thread and state in what way your
> use-case invalidates the previous reasoning?

Thank you, just reading it.

> In particular, in what way do notes (as in git-notes(1)) fail to solve
> your problem?

Well, my biggest concerns are that users might trash them, and that they are voided by amend, rebase etc. (which I tried to address by collecting header lines).

Well, from this thread I suppose the "best" (or at least easiest) way forward is to use notes, if necessary.

Thank you!

Regards,

Phil

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