From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: johnnyutahh Subject: Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git? Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:54:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1323838492627-7092383.post@n2.nabble.com> References: <20110418004550.GA2529@elie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 14 05:54:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ragrq-0002pW-Lq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:54:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756714Ab1LNEyy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:54:54 -0500 Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:57628 "EHLO sam.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753216Ab1LNEyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:54:53 -0500 Received: from jim.nabble.com ([192.168.236.80]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ragrk-0003pg-LM for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:54:52 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20110418004550.GA2529@elie> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Following up on http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Tracking-file-metadata-in-git-fix-metastore-or-enhance-git-td6251248.html this discussion re: git file-metadata-management , posted this: http://superuser.com/questions/367729/how-to-reuse-extend-etckeepers-metadata-engine-for-git-control-of-non-etc-file Any further movement on this topic? Jonathan Nieder-2 wrote > > Hi again, > > Not sure if my thoughts will be useful here since you dropped me from > the cc list. But anyway: > > Richard Hartmann wrote: > >> here are the three options: >> >> 1) fix metastore >> 2) default to gitperms >> 3) extend git >> >> I still think 3) would be best, but someone would need to step up to >> do this. Is anyone up for this task? If not, we will have to resort to >> 1) or 2) > > The usual practice in git development is > > (1) people make scripts wrapping plumbing commands (see git(1)) that > work well for themselves > (2) they tell the git list about it and publish it > (3) an idea emerges that this is suitable for inclusion, and it > gets included > > In particular, git's design is not so monolithic --- "extend git" can > mean "add a script" or "add a builtin" so it is not so involved as you > seem to think. See also contrib/README for a place to stop on the > way. > > Anyway, if you want something the just works, my suggestion is (4) use > the hook scripts from etckeeper. Last time I looked into this they > worked better than metastore. > > Hope that helps. > Jonathan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@.kernel > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Tracking-file-metadata-in-git-fix-metastore-or-enhance-git-tp6251248p7092383.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.