From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:16:51 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Plumbing-only support for storing object metadata Message-ID: <20080810201651.GB14237@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080810181115.GA3906@efreet.light.src> Jan Hudec wrote: >On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 19:57:35 +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> Jan Hudec wrote: >If git was to store anything for empty >directories, it would be empty tree, not a tree containing empty blob called >'.'. There was even a prototype patch to do that sent to the list (I believe Ok, sounds reasonable. With respect to the storage inside the tree, using a duplicate name with mode 0 or a name with some kind of rare extension... It should probably be investigated how much of the existing core needs to be touched/changed to support the duplicate name. I agree that using a custom rare extension would allow for almost no change to git-core. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. Real programmers don't produce results, they return exit codes.