[PATCH] histedit: remove history_source

Siddharth Agarwal sid at less-broken.com
Wed Jul 30 13:54:11 CDT 2014


On 07/30/2014 11:21 AM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
> This change is actually useful for at least two things:
>
> 1) keeping relevant meta data when using --keep
> 2) Ensuring the a pure happen only history creation. A property hihgly 
> critical to any distributed system
>
> Doesn't git have a way to quietly store arbitraty metadata?

There are Git notes, but they're not an input to the commit hash so 
storing hg metadata in there would mean hg-git loses its 1:1 mapping 
between Mercurial and Git revisions. Other than that I'm not aware of 
anything.


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