From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:16:50 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121129061650.GB25537@thyrsus.com> References: <20121128001231.GA27971@thyrsus.com> <20121128011750.GA23498@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7v7gp6i3rx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Berg , Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Shawn Pearce , git To: Steven Michalske X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 29 07:17:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdxQu-00017J-2I for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:17:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752009Ab2K2GQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:16:58 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:40062 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943Ab2K2GQ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:16:57 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7AD940661; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:16:50 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steven Michalske : > Would having arbitrary key value pairs be useful in the git data > model? We could have ones that affect the sha1 and others that are > transparent. My tools would have several uses for these. bzr's implementation of import streams has a commit-propperties extension. reposurgeon can read, display.. and manipulate these key/value pairs. I do wish they were in core git. -- Eric S. Raymond