From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: extra headers in commit objects Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:15:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20100203174041.GC14799@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 03 19:15:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcjlY-0005SJ-8J for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:15:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754013Ab0BCSPq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:15:46 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:12672 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752951Ab0BCSPq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:15:46 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KXA00LJR2Q9TV20@VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:15:45 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20100203174041.GC14799@spearce.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Am I correct that core C developers are still under the opinion > that extra headers in a commit object aren't encouraged? I would say so. [...] > At the end of the day, is it a bug that C git doesn't support > working with extra commit headers? IMHO, no, because, we've > rejected these in the past, and its not part of the Git standard. > And other implementations shouldn't be trying to sell it that way. Agreed. And this was discussed in great length on this list on few occasions already (probably more than a year back). Nicolas