Re: Branches & directories

    Robin> Hilco Wijbenga skrev 2011-08-22 22.10:
    >> [...] I just wish there was at least an option to keep the
    >> timestamp (and possibly other such things). Even Subversion can
    >> do that... ;-) After all, not everybody uses C& make.

    Robin> What tools do you use that need the benefits from retaining
    Robin> timestamps?  The only one I can think of is clearmake, but
    Robin> then that tool goes with another SCM. Eclipse, for example,
    Robin> will be just as confused by timestamps that travel backwards
    Robin> in time, as make is.

I think of tools called "humans", very common indeed on Earth. :-)

The reward of git success is that it is not only used to develop the Linux kernel. :-)

We use also git as a very smart repositories to store administrative documents. It is very convenient to look at the real modification or creation dates to figure out some historical aspects for example.

metastore is a nice tool providing a begin of this on top of git (or
whatever) but :
- this is not very convenient, needing to deal manually with these
  aspects ;
- the metadata is binary and not textual (à la YAML ?) so we loose the
  classical textual merging candies when conflict arises on metadata
  (ouch).

It is one of my future project to do a more textual version of metastore, but I'm afraid it is an unbound future... :-/