From: david@lang.hm
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:29:50 GMT
Subject: Re: metastore
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710021327371.24697@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20071002202333.GB16010@lapse.madduck.net>

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, martin f krafft wrote:

> 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