From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:31:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:03, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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.

Keeping this information out of git's way during operations in which
it's not needed is obviously A Good Thing. Yet, this would only happen
when this information has been added to the repository on purpose.
Thus, I don't see this as a deal-breaker.


Richard