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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2011, 01:03 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd be worried about using a clean filter to store timestamps.
> Treating a file as changed whenever mtime changes could be confusing.
> Treating atime changes as content changes would be even stranger.

That is exactly why git does not store metainfo. Storing auxiliary information on commit objects or tree objects to help build or deploy procedures is fine, but that kind of information should be stored somewhere that the normal git operations would not care about.

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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
  19. Richard HartmannDec 20, 2011

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