Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 26, 2007, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070826100647.GH1219@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <B4A2AE9980774365B5D14B442A7A22F6@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:02:50AM CEST, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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>>> My knowledge of Git internals is quite limited, but if *I* were to do
>>> it right now, I'd introduce a META entry in every TREE object that
>>> would point to a BLOB that contains combined content of
>>> .gitattributes, .gitignore etc.
>> A tree that has .gitattributes (and I am assuming in the longer
>> term you can use "ignore" and "precious" in .gitattributes
>> instead of using .gitignore) POINTS TO A BLOB already, so what
>> you are saying does not add anything to what we already have,
>> other than that you are renaming .gitattributes to "META ENTRY".
>
> Almost true! The difference is: META BLOBS are not created as files in the 
> workspace (not during checkout, not ever).
> In order to edit it you'd have to use 'git meta' command.
> So once again, there is only one place to check for metadata - the index.

That sounds so incredibly ugly, I really would hate to see that.

It's still not clear to me how this would help anything, though I didn't watch late Git development. Can you explain some particular scenario where this would improve the current situation?

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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