Does anyone use store files they edit with Skim in Git repositories? My heart
was broken today to come home and find that all the work I'd done in Skim the
office didn't make the trip to the repository along with the .pdfs themselves
once Git was done with them. Git doesn't xattrs--in fact, it wipes them. In
fact, lots of file syncing and VCS utilities do this.
This is no problem for certain uses of extended attributes. Frankly, there are
certain things that OS X uses xattrs for that I wouldn't want travelling around
in shared repos. However, xattrs are meant for, well, attributes--not file
data (or, "data I want to associate with another file's data"). I understand
that this is a necessary hack for Skim's purposes (and an elegant one, no
less), but frankly somewhat antithetical to the purpose of attributes. So has
anyone figured out a way to pass around Skim-edited files in VCS systems, etc.
and keep those precious notes? Here's to hoping so! <Lifts whiskey...>
Thanks,
Brennon Bortz
Software Researcher
Dundalk Institute of Technology
[email protected]
Ph.D. Researcher & Composer - Sonic Arts Research Centre
Queen's University, Belfast
[email protected] / [email protected]
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