From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:17:26 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.
Message-ID: <52E107D8068148B795FB4279B6272B8E@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wdqud0z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
 >> 2. Storing metadata in regular source-controlled files feels wrong to
>> me.
> You are free to _feel_ whatever you want without thinking, but

I did quite a bit of thinking before posting it. Not sure what made you think otherwise.

>  I think reading from
> index as a fallback measure when work tree file is missing is a
> very good compromise we came up recently.

Can you specify _exactly_ how it works now? And I'll show you a bunch of corner cases where it's broken.

- Dmitry