Re: New Proposal (simple) for Metadata in Git Commits: git-meta

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Sam Elliott <sam@lenary.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2009, at 23:05, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> If you dropped the --git-meta-- tags above, JGit would happily
>> recognize the awesome: and Github: tags, but it might need a bit
>> more work to recognize the nested user: tag.  Also, you'd be able
>> to use git-meta on the git and Linux kernel repositories to pull
>> out and work with Signed-off-by, Acked-by, etc.
>
> I'm not entirely sure about this approach. The current implementation  
> also works with PGP-signed tags, where the information is not  
> necessarily going to be at the bottom of the message when i use `git- 
> cat-file -p`. I think it shouldn't be too hard to also have git-meta  
> read any YAML-like data just before the signing message.

Ah, good point.  But as you point out, it should be simple enough
to detect a PGP signature on the bottom and just clip that off the
end, and then perform the YAML-like data parsing on the footer.

-- 
Shawn.