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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finer timestamps and serialization in git
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 20:35:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516003522.GD124956@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871s0zwjv0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>:
> You put it key-values in the commit message and read it back out via
> git-interpret-trailers.

Speaking as a person who has done a lot of repository migrations, this
makes me shudder.  It's fragile, kludgy, and does not maintain proper
separation of concerns.

The feature I *didn't* ask for at the next format break is a user-modifiable
key-value store per commit that is *not* in the commit comment.  Bzr
has this.  It's useful.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15 19:16 Finer timestamps and serialization in git Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-15 20:16 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-15 20:28   ` Jason Pyeron
2019-05-15 21:14     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-15 22:07       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-16  0:28       ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-16  1:25         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-20 15:05           ` Michal Suchánek
2019-05-20 16:36             ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-20 17:22               ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-20 21:32                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-15 23:40     ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-19  0:16       ` Philip Oakley
2019-05-19  4:09         ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-19 10:07           ` Philip Oakley
2019-05-15 23:32   ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-16  1:14     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-05-16  9:50     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-19 23:15       ` Jakub Narebski
2019-05-20  0:45         ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-20  9:43           ` Jakub Narebski
2019-05-20 10:08             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-20 12:40             ` Jeff King
2019-05-20 14:14             ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-20 14:41               ` Michal Suchánek
2019-05-20 22:18                 ` Philip Oakley
2019-05-20 21:38               ` Elijah Newren
2019-05-20 23:12                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-21  0:08               ` Jakub Narebski
2019-05-21  1:05                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-15 20:20 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-16  0:35   ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2019-05-16  4:14   ` Jeff King

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