Interested in fixing bug 182: file permissions issues -- would appreciate comments/help

[Sean Meiners]

That's an idea I can definitely get behind. Not only because it  
maintains the basic information that makes my life easier. But also  
because it adds the potential for 'tagging' files in all sorts of  
ways that we haven't even thought of yet.

On Jul 2, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Eric M. Hopper wrote:

> I think a lot of this useful meta-information can be handled out-of- 
> band
> from the main stuff in the version control system.  File ending
> translation mode is another piece of useful meta-information.
>
> Perhaps someone needs to write a 'meta-information' extension that
> allows storing arbitrary key-value pairs with each file and hooks into
> cp, mv and rm to maintain the information so it appears to follow a  
> file
> through copies and renames.
>
> The meta-information could be stuffed into a file that was version
> controlled along with everything else.

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Sean Meiners
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