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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add support for commit attributes
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:28:13 -0500
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Diego Lago wrote:
> Commit attributes are custom commit extra headers the user can
> add to the commit object.
> 
> The motivation for this patch is that in my company we have a custom
> continuous integration software that uses a custom formatted commit
> message (currently in YALM format) to show several information into
> our CI server front-end.

These attributes can be used for remote-helpers as well; to store extra
information that cannot be stored otherwise in Git's data structures.

-- 
Felipe Contreras