Jeremy Ardley wrote: ... > I have not used these, but there seem to be some work-arounds for > storing metadata in/with git > > lfs has the ability to script xattr handling > > https://git-lfs.github.com/
i'll look at that one and see if it brings things to mind that i've already messed with it before. sometimes i go looking and do try things, but my recent few months have been busy with other projects. um, no, i don't want large files being shipped off or linked to some other service. that's not what my gripe is about at all. > These applications work directly with metadata and can be scripted into > the git process: > > Metastore: https://github.com/przemoc/metastore > > Git-meta: https://github.com/chasinglogic/git-meta i've dabbled with that one but not gone further. > None of these will handle NTFS Alternate Data Streams, so archive > operations between windows and linux are guaranteed to lose data and > metadata. i don't do stuff with Windows or NTFS any longer so that doesn't matter to me, i just want file attributes copied and restored properly. songbird
