also sprach Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> [2007.09.15.2156 +0200]:
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> Configuration options only apply to the local aspects of the repository.=
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> That is, when you clone a repository, you don't get the configuration=20
> options from it, in general. And changing configuration options on a=20
> repository does not have any effect on the content it contains. So=20
> configuration options aren't appropriate.

Sure they are. Just like git-commit figures out your email address=20
if user.email is missing from git-config, or core.sharedRepository=20
or core.umask deal with permissions only when you tell them to,=20
you'd have to enable core.track or else git would just do what it
does right now.

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> Git doesn't have any way to represent owners or groups, and they
> would need to be represented carefully in order to make sense
> across multiple computers. If you're adding support for
> metadata-as-content (for more than "is this a script?"), you
> should be able to cover all of the common cases of extended stuff,
> like AFS-style ACLs.

Ideally, git should be able to store an open-ended number of
properties for each object, yes.

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> And if you want to allow meaningful development with this
> mechanism (as opposed to just archival of a sequence of states of
> a live system), the normal case will be that the metadata beyond
> +x is manipulated by ordinary users in some way other than
> modifying their working directory.

I have no idea what you mean with that.

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> So the normal case here will be like working on a filesystem that
> doesn't support symlinks or an executable bit when this is
> important content.

=2E.. and yet, we support symlinks and executable files. But anyway,
I really don't understand what you're trying to say.

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