On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Steven Michalske <smichal...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Would having arbitrary key value pairs be useful in the git data >> model? > > My answer to the question is that it is harmful to the data model, > but the benefit of going against the data model _may_ outweigh the > downside. It is all relative.
If git doesn't provide the capability, people will keep using the commit message to store that extra information, which I would think is even more harmful. An standard 'commit-extra' note or something would help deal with that. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
