From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philipp Marek" Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for arbitrary tags in commits Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <74b0628dffbd2bc0adabe5e8b0a10960.squirrel@webmail.hitco.org> <201101111340.50508.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Thomas Rast" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 11 14:49:15 2011 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 1Pceb4-0004Bf-2t for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:49:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756020Ab1AKNtI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:49:08 -0500 Received: from vps.hitco.at ([84.200.20.238]:46966 "EHLO vps.hitco.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754144Ab1AKNtH (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:49:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vps.hitco.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC439C68001; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:49:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at vps.hitco.at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.282 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.282 tagged_above=-999 required=6.31 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.117, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from vps.hitco.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vps.hitco.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36Vo5gU78ZoV; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.hitco.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vps.hitco.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB7D8F40002; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from 86.59.100.100 (SquirrelMail authenticated user flip) by webmail.hitco.org with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:59 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <201101111340.50508.trast@student.ethz.ch> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello Thomas, thank you very much for the quick answer. >> The best way I've found (so far) is to put an additional header line in the >> commit header that references an additional blob. > > This comes up every few months. The last large discussion about this > that we had IIRC was > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138848 > > Can you please look through that thread and state in what way your > use-case invalidates the previous reasoning? Thank you, just reading it. > In particular, in what way do notes (as in git-notes(1)) fail to solve > your problem? Well, my biggest concerns are that users might trash them, and that they are voided by amend, rebase etc. (which I tried to address by collecting header lines). Well, from this thread I suppose the "best" (or at least easiest) way forward is to use notes, if necessary. Thank you! Regards, Phil -- Versioning your /etc, /home or even your whole installation? Try fsvs (fsvs.tigris.org)!