"Jonathan S. Shapiro" wrote:
>
> At the moment, the per-object (per-file) metadata that I know I need to keep
> is basically the transformer set and the name of the file relative to the
> top of the checkout tree.
>
> I was tempted to keep modification times, until I realized that getting
> timezones right is hard enough that some clients won't be able to.
Eh? That doesn't seem sufficient reason to not keep it, and may developers are perfectly capable of at least keeping GMT correct on their machine, even if they can't get the timezone right (for example, I often don't bother with summertime, but I almost always use NTP to timesync GMT).
> What other metadata needs to be preserved on a per-file basis?
I'll second the x mode bits. Dunno what you are doing about tags, but maybe those, and, of course, delta comments.
Cheers,
Ben.
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