On 10.04.2014, at 19:28, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Diego Lago wrote: >> Commit attributes are custom commit extra headers the user can >> add to the commit object. >> >> The motivation for this patch is that in my company we have a custom >> continuous integration software that uses a custom formatted commit >> message (currently in YALM format) to show several information into >> our CI server front-end. > > These attributes can be used for remote-helpers as well; to store extra > information that cannot be stored otherwise in Git's data structures. +1 to that. This is reminds me of what Kiln Harmony does as part of their effort to enable full round-robin transfer between Git and Mercurial (a goal from which all other tools I know of still are far away). See <http://blog.fogcreek.com/kiln-harmony-internals-the-basics/>. Cheers, Max
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