also sprach David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> [2007.09.19.2016 +0100]:
> But I agree, if any changes were made to git, I'd advocate adding
> arbitrary attributes to files (much like xattrs) in name=value
> pairs, then any extended metadata could be stored in those
> attributes and external scripts/tools could use them in some way
> that makes sense...and also make sure to only update them when it
> makes sense.

So where would those metdata be stored in your opinion?

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