On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:02:50AM CEST, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: >>> My knowledge of Git internals is quite limited, but if *I* were to do >>> it right now, I'd introduce a META entry in every TREE object that >>> would point to a BLOB that contains combined content of >>> .gitattributes, .gitignore etc. >> A tree that has .gitattributes (and I am assuming in the longer >> term you can use "ignore" and "precious" in .gitattributes >> instead of using .gitignore) POINTS TO A BLOB already, so what >> you are saying does not add anything to what we already have, >> other than that you are renaming .gitattributes to "META ENTRY". > > Almost true! The difference is: META BLOBS are not created as files in the > workspace (not during checkout, not ever). > In order to edit it you'd have to use 'git meta' command. > So once again, there is only one place to check for metadata - the index. That sounds so incredibly ugly, I really would hate to see that. It's still not clear to me how this would help anything, though I didn't watch late Git development. Can you explain some particular scenario where this would improve the current situation? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - 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
