On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
 

Googling around, I see subversion already has this and calls the meta-data 
"properties" (svn propset/get and friends). It uses a few properties 
itself, such as the svn:executable property (which I saw is also the only 
permission bit git keeps) and svn:ignore, which serves the same role as the 
.gitignore files for git. Both those would fit into this scheme nicely for 
git as well, if git were to do something similar and reserve for example 
the "git.*" namespace for internal use.

"svn does it" is usually an indication of a bad idea, but anyway - it's
fundamentally wrong in this case, simply because "$FOO is interested
in $BAR" is a property of $FOO, not of $BAR.

The git-blame thing as sketched before by Linus would never be able to 
point out mailing lists, or general lists of "interested parties" for 
example, but these properties can do anything...

No, they can not.  "I'm interested in drivers/foo/bar.c fixes" is not
an earth-shattering event and it sure as hell does not create a new revision
of the tree.