From: David Härdeman Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:58:16 GMT Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) 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: >also sprach David Härdeman [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 :) -- David Härdeman