Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:40:29 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> 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.
"svn does it" is usually an indication of a bad idea, but anyway - it's fundamentally wrong in this case, simply because "$FOO is interested in $BAR" is a property of $FOO, not of $BAR.
> 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...
No, they can not. "I'm interested in drivers/foo/bar.c fixes" is not an earth-shattering event and it sure as hell does not create a new revision of the tree. - 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/
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