Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Sep 16, 2007, 06:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20070916060859.GB24124@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151430040.5298@iabervon.org>

also sprach Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> [2007.09.15.2156 +0200]:

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> Configuration options only apply to the local aspects of the repository. 
> That is, when you clone a repository, you don't get the configuration 
> options from it, in general. And changing configuration options on a 
> repository does not have any effect on the content it contains. So 
> configuration options aren't appropriate.

Sure they are. Just like git-commit figures out your email address if user.email is missing from git-config, or core.sharedRepository or core.umask deal with permissions only when you tell them to, you'd have to enable core.track or else git would just do what it does right now.

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> Git doesn't have any way to represent owners or groups, and they
> would need to be represented carefully in order to make sense
> across multiple computers. If you're adding support for
> metadata-as-content (for more than "is this a script?"), you
> should be able to cover all of the common cases of extended stuff,
> like AFS-style ACLs.

Ideally, git should be able to store an open-ended number of properties for each object, yes.

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> And if you want to allow meaningful development with this
> mechanism (as opposed to just archival of a sequence of states of
> a live system), the normal case will be that the metadata beyond
> +x is manipulated by ordinary users in some way other than
> modifying their working directory.

I have no idea what you mean with that.

> So the normal case here will be like working on a filesystem that
> doesn't support symlinks or an executable bit when this is
> important content.

... and yet, we support symlinks and executable files. But anyway, I really don't understand what you're trying to say.

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