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?

How could there be a conflict if you can't make local changes
because you can't represent the attributes locally/natively?

> 2. git is a series of snapshots, what does it mean to 'stay unchanged'?

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?

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