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danny0838 / git-store-meta

Simple file metadata storing and applying for git.
MIT License
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Feature request: working in any directory #3

Open priyadarshan opened 7 years ago

priyadarshan commented 7 years ago

git-store-meta is quite useful per se, even not depending from the git use-case.

Would it be possible to add the feature to make it work inside any directory, independent from being under git version control?

That would help create and maintain manifestos, or other specialised lists, and apply their content in case of erroneous changes like: wrong tar operations, rsynch with wrong switches, etc.

Thank you again for git-store-meta.

danny0838 commented 6 years ago

git-store-meta handles only the files revisioned by git. It probably won't work well without git.

priyadarshan commented 6 years ago

One could see the use-case of dealing with any directory as a sub-case of the general scope of git-store-meta, as a generic directory would be like a git-controleld directory, minus the version-controlled connection.

It would benefit users like us (ie, me with collegues) that need to rely on other tools to do the exact same functionality for generic directories. It would be nice to have only one tool to deal with storing meta-data, whetever git-controlled or not.

But I can see one would want to just concentrate on the git-controlled scope.

Please, feel free to close this any time. Thank you again for taking time to consider this.