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

From: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Date: Oct 2, 2007, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20071002195816.GA6759@hardeman.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20071002195301.GB14171@lapse.madduck.net>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:53:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

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>also sprach David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> [2007.09.19.2016 +0100]:
>> But I agree, if any changes were made to git, I'd advocate adding
>> arbitrary attributes to files (much like xattrs) in name=value
>> pairs, then any extended metadata could be stored in those
>> attributes and external scripts/tools could use them in some way
>> that makes sense...and also make sure to only update them when it
>> makes sense.
>
>So where would those metdata be stored in your opinion?

I'm not sufficiently versed in the internals of git to have an informed opinion :)

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David Härdeman

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