Re: Revisiting metadata storage

On 14 December 2011 09:59, Richard Hartmann
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 23:45, Ronan Keryell
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

At least I'm interested and began to dig into it but I do not have a lot
of time to work on it...

If we can agree on Perl, I can try to help. I don't think I speak
enough Python to be of use with that.

Other people who have an interest in this: Please pipe up so we can
hammer out a rough consensus & roadmap.

I'd love to have better support for metadata (specifically
timestamps). I don't care whether it's Perl, Python, Bash, or C. I
don't think I'll be much help coding but I'd like to try.

In all honesty though, I plan to rewrite our build to use file digests
instead of timestamps. Right now every rebase means a full (and almost
completely unnecessary) rebuild. Luckily I'm using the wonderful
git-new-workdir so there is no pain when switching branches.

Once the rewrite is complete (in one or two months) Git's relentless
timestamp changes should no longer affect us as much anymore. I would
still like to get a better grip on metadata though. Git should be able
to not touch files that have not changed. But whether that's feasible
or even in scope of what you have in mind... :-)

Cheers,
Hilco