From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:05:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?
Message-ID: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1104081903550.22999@herc.mirbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110408185924.GA25840@elie>

Jonathan Nieder dixit:

>I think the most native-looking way to store metadata associated to
>paths is .gitattributes.  It also has the nice feature of allowing a
>single attribute to apply to multiple files.

Eh, no. Think of extended attributes like, say, NTFS Resource Forks.
They’re just different “lines” into the “plane” a file can be, if
you excuse the metapher. (All parallel, of course.) They are just
another facet of each file.

bye,
//mirabilos
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