Re: metastore

From: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date: Oct 2, 2007, 20:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710021351400.24697@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20071002203941.GA18008@lapse.madduck.net>

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

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> also sprach david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> [2007.10.02.2129 +0100]:
>> 1. you do want to be able to manipulate them
>>
>> 1a. how do you reconcile a conflict during a merge?
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> How could there be a conflict if you can't make local changes
> because you can't represent the attributes locally/natively?

you merge two uptream branches that disagree about the attributes

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>> 2. git is a series of snapshots, what does it mean to 'stay unchanged'?
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> In simple terms, let (content,A,B) be an object with content
> "content" and extended attributes A,B, and B cannot be represented
> locally, but a new object is committed with a change to attribute
> A (content2,A2), then the result is (content2,A2,B), as B simply
> comes from the (corresponding object of the) parent.
>
> Or am I totally misunderstanding?

it's very possible that I am misunderstanding, but do we really want to have to go back to the parent to duplicate things when creating a new commit?

and aren't you supposed to be able to have more then one parent? if you do, which one would you use?

David Lang