Re: extra headers in commit objects

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:48:35PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Anyhow, I was saying that _technically_ you can artificially write
> > extra headers into the commit object (though at the time Dulwich
> > didn't support reading them because of how it parsed commit objects -
> > I believe it would actually explode if it saw something it didn't
> > expect).  I said I was still going to keep the metadata in my
> > implementation in the message, but he was very interested in hiding
> > his in the commit headers.
> 
> Yea, everyone wants to hide that extra metadata.  I never get why.
> Even in SVN.  Why wouldn't I want to see the bug(s) fixed by
> a commit?  Difference of opinion.  I also happen to prefer the
> color blue.  Dammit, everyone should prefer blue.

Note, though, that such information may change in the future, in which
case you can't rewrite the commit to fit that.
But for all that, there are git-notes, now, aren't there ?

Mike
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