Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761125AbXHPLMb (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753823AbXHPLMU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:12:20 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:49681 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009AbXHPLMT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:12:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46C43015.7080804@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:08:05 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Moffett CC: Satyam Sharma , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Joe Perches , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Trond Myklebust , Mariusz Kozlowski , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl References: <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1187037445.6628.98.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <46C10AA8.3090505@gmail.com> <20070814102033.604c8695@the-village.bc.nu> <46C1CFFE.4000001@gmail.com> <1187110824.32555.76.camel@localhost> <46C1EE6F.2080807@gmail.com> <1187116082.32555.122.camel@localhost> <20070814193333.GI21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> <46C2548D.80605@gmail.com> <46C30220.6060007@gmail.com> <68B09015-4411-470A-BA88-732969469AA2@mac.com> <46C42DCB.1060502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46C42DCB.1060502@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2658 Lines: 52 On 08/16/2007 12:58 PM, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/15/2007 03:52 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> If you were going to do that I'd just suggest making git aware of the >> "user.*" extended attributes and having it save those into the git >> repo along with the permission data. > > Am looking at it but am not so sure that's a very good idea. I guess > it'd be largely okay-ish to require the repo to be on a filesystem that > supports EAs for this feature to work, but keeping the attributes intact > over file system operations seems not all that easy (yet). Having not > used EAs before I may be missing something but my version of "cp" for > example (GNU coreutils 6.9) appears to not copy them. Nor do they seem > to survive a trip through GNU tar 1.16.1. EAs appear to not be very > useful unless every single tool supports them -- a repo should be > resistant against simple operations like that. > > 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. > > Junio (and others), do you have an opinion on this? If these properties > are versioned themselves such as in svn I believe it's a decidedly > non-trivial addition (and I'm a complete git newbie) but to me, they > look incredibly useful, both for the original "maintainers" properties > (and anyone else one would want to come up with such as summary > properties and author/license stuff) and even for git internal reasons > such as sketched above. > > 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... The svn implemention is that a single property is free-form text. As such, I guess a property would be just another file, although one that only lives in the index and is linked from the file/directory it is a property of. Perhaps that immediately suggests an implementation to someone already familiar with git internals? Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/