From: Thorsten Glaser Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:58:21 GMT Subject: Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <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 -- 13:47⎜ if i were omnipotent, i would divide by zero all day long ;) (thinking about http://lobacevski.tumblr.com/post/3260866481 by waga)