From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:48:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Date handling.
Message-ID: <1113515314.12012.235.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <425EDA43.3040404@zytor.com>

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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dwmw2