Re: git support for "xattrs" (extended filesystem attributes)?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Nov 27, 2024, 00:00 UTC

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> There are some third party tools to save the information in a separate
> file within the history and restore it on checkout.

Ah, you're right of course.  We are extensible that way.

> I haven't used them
> myself and some of them are quite old, so YMMV:
>
>   - https://etckeeper.branchable.com/
>
>   - https://github.com/przemoc/metastore