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Re: Date handling.

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 14, 2005, 21:48 UTC
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<1113515314.12012.235.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:01 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Both of these are metadata; they may not be directly relevant to the 
> filesystem, but are attributes relevant to the client thereof; 
> effectively an xattr.

Right. That's perfectly acceptable -- and that's the reason why I think it's also fine to keep the timezone and the rename information in there too. If we were being _really_ anal about auxiliary information being separate, we'd stick it in a separate blob object and merely refer to it from the commit object. I don't think there's really any call to take it that far, though.

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Message 5 of 6 in “RE: Date handling.”
  1. Luck, TonyApr 14, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2005
  3. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  5. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  6. Paul JacksonApr 15, 2005

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