On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For lack of a better idea (cf. [0]), I am currently toying with the > following approach: Hi Martin! What data are you trying to include? Some time ago, I had similar ideas to yours for a while... and it ended up being that all I needed was to put the additional data /in a file/ and commit that file. Speculation: you mention distro packaging, so I assume you're improving the Debian packaging integration, with git tracking debian/rules, perhaps with a wrapper. If you are using a wrapper program, it is trivial to update this "metadata" file, or to ensure it's valid/sane, in the preparations to commit, perhaps ensuring that a pre-commit-hook script is in place and executable. hth, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html