Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS?atomcommentsDWiki2018-11-12T00:14:31ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCStag:CSpace:blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS:36dcae2d5b361d61ab066d4ec605cddc1a0b9327Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>This is a sufficiently good question that I wound up writing <a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/VCSVsMetadata">an entry
about VCSes versus metadata</a>, but the short
version is that I don't think VCSes are broken here because capturing
all metadata isn't part of their job (especially since current VCSes
are primarily focused on code development and its needs).</p>
</div>2018-11-12T00:14:31ZBy Andrew Reilly on /blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCStag:CSpace:blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS:a1ebafb6ffc0f22dda120d84c1ecfb7e1f4c1de2Andrew Reilly<div class="wikitext"><p>Doesn't it strike you that if your VCS isn't faithfully recording and tracking the metadata associated with the contents of your files, then it's broken?</p>
<p>Now it may be that it's a common form of breakage, because most VCS grew up around program source code, and that generally only cares about the file contents. Still. Metadata exists. It should be saved for posterity and versioned.</p>
</div>2018-11-11T22:05:01ZBy Aristotle Pagaltzis on /blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCStag:CSpace:blog/web/FileBasedMetadataInVCS:05cf8c8eec9aa510d788ba0c5afb85b34b4f1675Aristotle Pagaltzishttp://plasmasturm.org/<div class="wikitext"><p>I started writing a comment in reply but <a href="http://plasmasturm.org/log/metaconflation/">it turned into an entry on my own weblog</a>. (And thanks for compelling me to publish something there again after ages! I should do that more often…)</p>
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