From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:33:35 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.
Message-ID: <7vsl66svv4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <52E107D8068148B795FB4279B6272B8E@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>

Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:

> ----- 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.

As I made it clear, it is a compromise.  I am not interested in
discussing corner cases with you -- I am sure there are.

If you are offering improvements, I am all ears.