From: "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:03:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831vgw5vr5.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v8wb4aj4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> It's like "keeping track of /etc" (or "your home directory"). It is a
> misguided thing to do because you are throwing in records of the
> states of totally unrelated things into a single history.
I've recently tried doing this again with Git, so this comment piqued my
interest. (That is, tracking changes to my various configuration files.)
I agree that browsing the history in toto is jarring, though the history
of a particular file may be telling.
Is there an alternative you'd recommend?
--
Steven E. Harris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-08 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-06 13:32 A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata? Jon Seymour
2010-02-07 1:36 ` Johan Herland
2010-02-07 2:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-07 5:02 ` Jeff King
2010-02-07 5:36 ` Jon Seymour
2010-02-07 9:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-02-07 9:41 ` Jon Seymour
2010-02-07 10:15 ` Jon Seymour
2010-02-07 19:33 ` Jeff King
2010-02-07 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-08 2:03 ` Steven E. Harris [this message]
2010-02-10 5:09 ` Jeff King
2010-02-10 5:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-10 5:29 ` Jeff King
2010-02-07 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-07 19:18 ` Jeff King
2010-02-07 22:46 ` Johan Herland
2010-02-07 3:27 ` Jon Seymour
2010-02-07 4:32 ` Jon Seymour
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