Revisiting metadata storage

[Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

every few months, a thread seems to pop up regarding metadata storage,
be it owner, mtime, xattr or what have you.

As of today there is (ttbomk) still no sane way to carry & restore
metadata across different repositories.

metastore[1] is closest to a working solution but its storage format
is binary and merge-unfriendly and it does not store mtime which is a
deal-breaker, for me.
I tried extend & fix metastore, but failed. Others looked at it,
deemed it possible and lost interest and/or their development box.

I know from Joey Hess [2] that the GitTogether 2011 saw some
discussion about metadata, but I was unable to find any follow-up to
this issue.


To make a long story short: Does anyone have a working solution,
today? If not, is anyone working on one? If not, is anyone interested
in working on one? And is there any follow-up to the GitTogether
discussion?

The feature set of any solution should probably include save, display,
diff, and apply on a per-metadata and per-file basis.


Thanks,
Richard

[1] http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php
[2] http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/GitTogether2011/