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| author | Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com> | 2016-01-30 14:39:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com> | 2016-01-30 14:39:03 +0100 |
| commit | d21de8277df8f407f99f351c2a8d77b8a00797cb (patch) | |
| tree | b9b346ac3ee82a6f1ab7685bf4f0f544d0772937 | |
| parent | 41861e7f6c0a0188ba8ca81d754a4fb0418e157f (diff) | |
README: Stress that it was written for git users only originally.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ metastore is a tool to store the metadata of files/directories/links in a file tree to a separate file and to later compare and apply the stored metadata to said file tree. -It was written as a supplement to git which does not store all metadata, -making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a repository. +It was originally written as a supplement to git, which does not store +all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a +repository. metastore can also be helpful if you want to create a tarball of a file tree and make sure that "everything" (e.g. xattrs, mtime, owner, group) |