From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: metastore Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20070915132632.GA31610@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070915145437.GA12875@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070916060859.GB24124@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070919191607.GE13683@hardeman.nu> <20071002195301.GB14171@lapse.madduck.net> <20071002195816.GA6759@hardeman.nu> <85lkalz3iv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20071002202333.GB16010@lapse.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: David Kastrup , David =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4rdeman?= , git@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Barkalow , Johannes Schindelin , "Thomas Harning Jr." , Francis Moreau , Nicolas Vilz To: martin f krafft X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 02 22:29:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcoMW-0000G6-IP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:29:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753449AbXJBU2w (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:28:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753409AbXJBU2w (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:28:52 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:60758 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752632AbXJBU2v (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:28:51 -0400 Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l92KSK9E023489; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:28:20 -0700 X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm In-Reply-To: <20071002202333.GB16010@lapse.madduck.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach david@lang.hm [2007.10.02.2118 +0100]: >> the problem with this is dealing with the attributes outside of git >> (especially when the filesystem can't store the attributes nativly, >> specificly including things like owners when not running as root) > > In which case you should not be able to manipulate them (as you > could not test the result) and any commits could not affect them, > meaning they'd just stay unchanged. two problems with this 1. you do want to be able to manipulate them 1a. how do you reconcile a conflict during a merge? 2. git is a series of snapshots, what does it mean to 'stay unchanged'? David Lang