From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] Parse commit object header correctly Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:27:35 +0700 Message-ID: References: <4F3120D4.1050604@warmcat.com> <7vvcni1r5u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vd39pzsmq.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120209175158.GA7384@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Catalin Marinas , Junio C Hamano , =?UTF-8?Q?Karl_Hasselstr=C3=B6m?= , =?UTF-8?B?QW5keSBHcmVlbiAo5p6X5a6J5bu4KQ==?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 10 05:28:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvi5t-0004JI-43 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:28:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757511Ab2BJE2I convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:28:08 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:48938 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754774Ab2BJE2G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:28:06 -0500 Received: by wgbdt10 with SMTP id dt10so2385749wgb.1 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:28:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BCFuyitfRBXg5acw5XB60BP290EAE56FiU2G3JrpHlI=; b=sTjc89oKf7tyHKLHjGk0mL6O0gk3Jgnd01drBW5/uJ7NnfNkkLgccrUXq+lgKMw1Uy tCI3QdumeFFd0gcjY325QQ3uvgRAUX677dLnpfXgDy5gGvey1hlbTf2ViyBQzmEduBf3 XZpYGU7xIloxdZFCNWxEoob0IhM2WpO7rXhaY= Received: by 10.216.136.17 with SMTP id v17mr1700436wei.26.1328848085265; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.2.139 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:27:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120209175158.GA7384@burratino> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Jonathan Nieder = wrote: > No. =C2=A0There is one list of supported headers, and this list is th= e > standards body that maintains it[*]. =C2=A0So if you end up needing a= n > extension to the commit object format, that can be done, but it needs > to be accepted here (and ideally checked by "git fsck", though it's > lagging a bit in that respect lately). > > [*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138848/foc= us=3D138892 Doesn't this deserve a document in Documentation/technical? It's also a good opportunity to document tree and tag object format in addition to commit object. I did not check thoroughly but the commit that introduced encoding field, 4b2bced, did not come with any document updates, so I assume it has not been documented ever since. --=20 Duy