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From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= <david@hardeman.nu>
Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:58:16 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:53:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>also sprach David H=E4rdeman <david@hardeman.nu> [2007.09.19.2016 +010=
0]:
>> 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?

I'm not sufficiently versed in the internals of git to have an informed=
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opinion :)

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David H=E4rdeman