From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:50:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] New commit object headers: generation and note headers
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0802090950l27aa247ei5d067e0f24fcade0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802091220030.13593@iabervon.org>

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

-- 
Duy