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0 pointssamatman6y ago0 comments

I find it maddening that git hasn't added a standard mechanism for metadata.

Commit comments are metadata. Tags are metadata. Why isn't there a general-purpose metadata plumbing so we can attach issues, merge and commit discussions, and wikis, in a portable way?

No, being able to export from one centralized repository and import into another isn't good enough.

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m4rtink6y ago

The Pagure git forge keeps all project metadata (issues, PRs, etc.) on git, so you have it all if your Pagure instance ever goes down & can easily move it to another instance:

https://pagure.io/pagure

rossmohax6y ago

You can attach as much metadata as you want using git-note.

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