On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Now, among the existing object types, there are only two kinds
> of objects you can use for this. If the only thing you need to
> record is some textual information with one pointer to git
> branch head, then you can use tag that points at the git head,
> and store everything else as the tag comment. This is doable
> but unwieldy.
I don't think this buys you anything, because then the tag needs to be
accessible from something, which is the same problem you were trying to
solve for the commit.
> You could abuse a commit object as well; you store commit
> objects (such as the corresponding git branch head) as parent
> commits, and put everything else in a tree that is associated
> with that commit.
If you want to go that way, you could add a new field to commits with
minimal effort: you just need to parse it in commit.c, generate it in
git-commit-tree (with an option), and pull it in pull.c, and everything
should work as far as making the git portion follow the metadata around.
-Daniel
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