Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

Chuck Lever wrote:

yay!  are you also proposing some git tools to deal with these?  it 
would be great to have some version control (keep these like generation 
files so we can see the history of revisions).

A Large Angry SCM wrote:

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GIT Repository Annotation Convention

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I'm not proposing any new tools, just a convention that existing tools 
or tools that others may create can adopt to provide information to a 
repositories users. Some existing tools that could use the annotations are:
	git-branch
	git-show-branch
	gitweb
There are likely others.

Like any other file under $GIT_DIR, these files are not automatically 
versioned. Rather, each repository maintainer, needs to decide how a 
repository's meta-data (project meta-meta-data) is tracked or generated.