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Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Apr 8, 2011, 10:01 UTC
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Richard Hartmann venit, vidit, dixit 08.04.2011 02:29:
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 21:27, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> 
>> but seeing that people seem to want to use
>> git for keeping their /etc (I use RCS, myself, but volunteered my
>> C skill to change metastore if it needs be) there is definitively
>> a market for having it there, in a standardised manner.
> 
> etckeeper does exist and it's very useful.

While I think there is some consensus not to have attribs (besides x) in core git, contrib/ may be a good place.

Note that etckeeper and metastore predate our notes feature. By now, a notes tree is a perfect place to store meta information. You can attach notes to blobs perfectly (see textconv-cache). That may be an option for a reimplementation, depending on how you want the versioning of the files to be related with the versioning of the meta data.

Michael
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  1. Richard HartmannApr 7, 2011
  2. Thorsten GlaserApr 7, 2011
  3. Richard HartmannApr 8, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberApr 8, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2011
  6. Thorsten GlaserApr 8, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2011
  8. Thorsten GlaserApr 8, 2011
  9. Richard HartmannApr 8, 2011
  10. Chris WebbApr 9, 2011
  11. Richard HartmannApr 9, 2011
  12. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2011
  14. Richard HartmannApr 10, 2011
  15. Richard HartmannApr 11, 2011
  16. Richard HartmannApr 18, 2011
  17. Jonathan NiederApr 18, 2011
  18. johnnyutahhDec 14, 2011
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