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Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?

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Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Date
Apr 8, 2011, 19:58 UTC
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<Pine.BSM.4.64L.1104081955490.22999@herc.mirbsd.org>
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<20110408194548.GA26094@elie>
Jonathan Nieder dixit:
>Each git commit (try it with "git cat-file commit HEAD) looks like so:
[…]
>So you see, using ordinary files […] makes a lot of
>sense.

True. I’d forgotten for a second that git is a stupid content tracker and confused it with a VCS. My bad. Your reasoning is of course sound. (I must admit I personally don’t have much experience with git, other than losing a lot of data once.)

>Now Michael mentioned an alternative, which is to store this
>information in separate objects.  That way, you could push your

This might be an alternative. RichiH, what are the requirements? I fear that the dotfile way will meet them better, considering that they are versioned together, not separately, and what you told me quickly about the idea.

bye, //mirabilos

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  1. Richard HartmannApr 7, 2011
  2. Thorsten GlaserApr 7, 2011
  3. Richard HartmannApr 8, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberApr 8, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2011
  6. Thorsten GlaserApr 8, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2011
  8. Thorsten GlaserApr 8, 2011
  9. Richard HartmannApr 8, 2011
  10. Chris WebbApr 9, 2011
  11. Richard HartmannApr 9, 2011
  12. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2011
  14. Richard HartmannApr 10, 2011
  15. Richard HartmannApr 11, 2011
  16. Richard HartmannApr 18, 2011
  17. Jonathan NiederApr 18, 2011
  18. johnnyutahhDec 14, 2011
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