Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Richard Hartmann dixit:

>git natively. metastore exists, but its binary storage format is

According to the documentation, metastore supports saving/restoring
POSIX Extended Attributes (however I got EOPNOTSUPP trying to setfacl
and setxattr, so I couldn’t verify the claim). It does *not* however
track the stuff visible using lsattr(1) on ext2fs.

Personally, I think this should definitively be tracked in git, not
in extra files (like “ EA DATA. SF” in OS/2) managed with external
tools (reminds me too much of things like umsdos and Rock Ridge as
well). Support needs not be part of core git, especially restoring
can be dangerous (consider SELinux), plus it’s very platform and
filesystem dependent, but seeing that people seem to want to use
git for keeping their /etc (I use RCS, myself, but volunteered my
C skill to change metastore if it needs be) there is definitively
a market for having it there, in a standardised manner.

bye,
//mirabilos
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