From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steven E. Harris" Subject: Re: A generalization of git notes from blobs to trees - git metadata? Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:03:42 -0500 Organization: SEH Labs Message-ID: <831vgw5vr5.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> References: <2cfc40321002060532g4d22dd4dx403bf312708e1424@mail.gmail.com> <201002070236.12711.johan@herland.net> <7v1vgxlr9q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100207050255.GA17049@coredump.intra.peff.net> <2cfc40321002062136q64f832aesd979c9cb22f3612@mail.gmail.com> <20100207193320.GB3185@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v8wb4aj4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 08 15:10:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeUJi-0003Ll-TG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752420Ab0BHOKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:10:17 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47387 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120Ab0BHOKP (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:10:15 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeUJY-0003EO-Ed for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:12 +0100 Received: from c-24-23-120-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net ([24.23.120.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:12 +0100 Received: from seh by c-24-23-120-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-23-120-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+S6tKs1BpATMZ+R7XPtAMjJGSsQ= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano 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