Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 15, 2007, 14:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151507310.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070915132632.GA31610@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote:

> The problem with metdata getting corrupted, which Nicolas reported,
> may well have to do with the use of a single file.

Then the tool is corrupt. Introducing a shadow hierarchy, as you propose, is very inefficient.

> Anyway, this *really* should go into git itself!

No. Git is a source code management system. Everything else that you can do with it is a bonus, a second class citizen. Should we really try to support your use case, we will invariably affect the primary use case.

Ciao, Dscho

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.