From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc. Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:33:35 -0700 Message-ID: <7vsl66svv4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <2646CA4BEA644C9E9089C4A1AC395250@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <7v1wdqud0z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <52E107D8068148B795FB4279B6272B8E@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , To: Dmitry Kakurin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 26 07:34:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPAlM-0002YK-CQ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:34:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751125AbXHZFds (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:33:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbXHZFds (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:33:48 -0400 Received: from rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.210.124.37]:49321 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750997AbXHZFdr (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:33:47 -0400 Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3D5126D29; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:34:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <52E107D8068148B795FB4279B6272B8E@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> (Dmitry Kakurin's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:17:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dmitry Kakurin writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Junio C Hamano" >>> 2. Storing metadata in regular source-controlled files feels wrong to >>> me. >> You are free to _feel_ whatever you want without thinking, but > > I did quite a bit of thinking before posting it. Not sure what made you think otherwise. > >> I think reading from >> index as a fallback measure when work tree file is missing is a >> very good compromise we came up recently. > > Can you specify _exactly_ how it works now? And I'll show you a bunch of corner cases where it's broken. As I made it clear, it is a compromise. I am not interested in discussing corner cases with you -- I am sure there are. If you are offering improvements, I am all ears.