Re: metastore
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
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> also sprach david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> [2007.10.02.2118 +0100]:
>> the problem with this is dealing with the attributes outside of git
>> (especially when the filesystem can't store the attributes nativly,
>> specificly including things like owners when not running as root)
>
> In which case you should not be able to manipulate them (as you
> could not test the result) and any commits could not affect them,
> meaning they'd just stay unchanged.
two problems with this
1. you do want to be able to manipulate them
1a. how do you reconcile a conflict during a merge?
2. git is a series of snapshots, what does it mean to 'stay unchanged'?
David Lang