Proposal for simple metadata implementation

[Christian Boos]

Benjamin Pollack wrote:
> ...
> Although I would love to have a standard way to keep track of metadata 
> in a Mercurial repository, I'm not convinced that this solution scales.  
> I think perhaps attacking this on a more specific case-by-case basis for 
> metadata problems we already have--such as text file encodings--might be 
> wiser.
>   

Exactly, so for mime-type and encodings, please take a look at the 
proposal I made last month:

 http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-February/024004.html

In short: for Trac, I'd like to define a format inspired from .hgignore 
that would map file patterns to mime-types and /or encodings. This 
metadata might be useful for other tools (even hgweb?), so it would be 
better to get a kind of "standard" format reusable by all interested 
parties.

-- Christian