Re: Tracking file metadata in git -- fix metastore or enhance git?

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Jonathan Nieder dixit:

>I think the most native-looking way to store metadata associated to
>paths is .gitattributes.  It also has the nice feature of allowing a
>single attribute to apply to multiple files.

Eh, no. Think of extended attributes like, say, NTFS Resource Forks.
Theyâre just different âlinesâ into the âplaneâ a file can be, if
you excuse the metapher. (All parallel, of course.) They are just
another facet of each file.

bye,
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