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Re: [RFC] New commit object headers: generation and note headers

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 17:50 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>  > 2. 'note' header (no semantical meaning)
>  >
>  > There was some time ago discussion about adding 'note' header, initially
>  > to save original sha-1 of a commit for cherry-picking and rebase; then
>  > for saving explicit rename or corrected rename info, for saving chosen
>  > merge strategy, and for saving original ID of SCM import.
>
>  Probably want to have a prescribed syntax for specifying what note this
>  is, so that different programs using notes don't confuse each other.

How about git ignoring all X- headers and let programs freely add them? For example, X-SVN may be used for git-svn.

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Duy
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  1. Jakub NarebskiFeb 9, 2008
  2. Daniel BarkalowFeb 9, 2008
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 9, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 9, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2008

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