On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On Saturday, July 02, 2011 06:10:43 AM Tom Lane wrote: >> I wouldn't have a problem with establishing a convention that we >> write credits in commit messages in a more standardized way, ie put >> something like "Author: Joe Blow <j...@blow.nom>" in the body of the >> commit message. However, the points that were raised about commit >> messages being effectively uncorrectable after-the-fact seem to me >> to put a big crimp in the idea of using that as the primary source >> of credit information. We'd still need something like the web app >> Robert described in <banlktimoxda08qm4lsh4qja3yztyuue...@mail.gmail.com> >> to allow correction of the info. > There are git notes which you can attach to a commit after the fact... I like > the fact that they would keep the information in the repository (where they > seem to belong).
Yeah, but I think it's still basically append-only, which is kind of a nuisance, and it means they can only be updated by committers, which is not particularly helpful from my point of view. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
