Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> Ok, but let's say for a moment that file properties are allowed, and >> that they are stored in the Reiser4 fashion. On filesystems that did not >> support this, it would be the only way to get at them - to go through >> the index. Unless they were also mapped to regular files, or >> filesystem-specific features somehow. > > Happily, file properties as well hidden as these have _no_ _place_ in > source code that needs to be tracked. But you're restricting your statements to tidy, sane code bases. Are there any particular reasons that git shouldn't be able to track insane code bases, with attributes etc? It sure would shut up a whole load of people. Sam. - 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