Subject: Re: git support for "xattrs" (extended filesystem attributes)?

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:00:32 +0900

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> There are some third party tools to save the information in a separate
> file within the history and restore it on checkout.

Ah, you're right of course.  We are extensible that way.

> I haven't used them
> myself and some of them are quite old, so YMMV:
>
>   - https://etckeeper.branchable.com/
>
>   - https://github.com/przemoc/metastore