From: Steven E. Harris <seh@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:03:42 GMT
Subject: Re: A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata?
Message-ID: <831vgw5vr5.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wb4aj4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It's like "keeping track of /etc" (or "your home directory").  It is a
> misguided thing to do because you are throwing in records of the
> states of totally unrelated things into a single history.

I've recently tried doing this again with Git, so this comment piqued my
interest. (That is, tracking changes to my various configuration files.)
I agree that browsing the history in toto is jarring, though the history
of a particular file may be telling.

Is there an alternative you'd recommend?

-- 
Steven E. Harris