From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:10:01 GMT
Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)
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