Subject: Re: Finer timestamps and serialization in git

From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 20:35:22 -0400

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>:
> 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.
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