From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martin f krafft Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:53:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20071002195301.GB14171@lapse.madduck.net> References: <20070915132632.GA31610@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070915145437.GA12875@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070916060859.GB24124@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070919191607.GE13683@hardeman.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Cc: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= , Daniel Barkalow , Johannes Schindelin , "Thomas Harning Jr." , Francis Moreau , Nicolas Vilz To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 02 21:54:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcnpS-0003Bj-TJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:54:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753260AbXJBTyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:54:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752877AbXJBTyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:54:43 -0400 Received: from clegg.madduck.net ([82.197.162.59]:51866 "EHLO clegg.madduck.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752588AbXJBTym (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:54:42 -0400 Received: from lapse.madduck.net (213-202-173-105.bas504.dsl.esat.net [213.202.173.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "lapse.madduck.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by clegg.madduck.net (postfix) with ESMTP id C5325BA383; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:54:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lapse.madduck.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 324383FDED; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:53:00 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070919191607.GE13683@hardeman.nu> X-Motto: Keep the good times rollin' X-OS: Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid kernel 2.6.22-2-686 i686 X-Spamtrap: madduck.bogus@madduck.net X-Subliminal-Message: debian/rules! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4456/Tue Oct 2 17:11:59 2007 on clegg.madduck.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable also sprach David H=E4rdeman [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=3Dvalue > 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? --=20 martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck =20 seen on an advertising for an elaborate swiss men's watch: "almost as complicated as a woman. except it's on time" =20 spamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="digital_signature_gpg.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHAqGdIgvIgzMMSnURAnJ5AKC+r4VTfiuWrnGdfpP68JJehmyArwCbBGRt xlkFmzWmdXNM4ncT7gZT71s= =XLLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--