On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:03, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That is exactly why git does not store metainfo. ÂStoring auxiliary > information on commit objects or tree objects to help build or deploy > procedures is fine, but that kind of information should be stored > somewhere that the normal git operations would not care about. Keeping this information out of git's way during operations in which it's not needed is obviously A Good Thing. Yet, this would only happen when this information has been added to the repository on purpose. Thus, I don't see this as a deal-breaker. Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html