Re: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitmodules, .gitprecious?, .gitacls? etc.

David Kastrup wrote:

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These files which store metadata would be stored in a way that is
"in another dimension" to the project files, despite being a part of
the history.  That means that all tools built to deal with regular
files and directories will not be able to merge the changes to the
attributes without special support.  I think this is broken.
    

That presumes that a good way to merge attributes is to use a text
file merge algorithm, complete with finding diff context lines in a
basically unchanged order.
  

Yes.  Is that not a reasonable assumption, in the absence of anything
more enlightened?

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As far as file properties goes, I still like Linus' idea of making
these files which are accessed by treating the file as a directory
(eg filename.txt/ACL, filename.txt/mime-type), and that approach
could be represented in git well.
    

Well, at least _some_ interesting Reiser4 idea resurfaces.
  

That was in there too?  Man that Reiser4 manifesto read like the Naked
Lunch.

Sam.