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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:10:01 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote:

> The problem with metdata getting corrupted, which Nicolas reported,
> may well have to do with the use of a single file.

Then the tool is corrupt.  Introducing a shadow hierarchy, as you propose, 
is very inefficient.

> Anyway, this *really* should go into git itself!

No.  Git is a source code management system.  Everything else that you can 
do with it is a bonus, a second class citizen.  Should we really try to 
support your use case, we will invariably affect the primary use case.

Ciao,
Dscho