Status update & proposed direction for branch-specific rules

[Ian Clatworthy]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> What do you mean by "out-of-tree" here:
> 
> "explicit support for managing versioned metafiles (like ignores and
> rules) in an out-of-tree way."

I mean that the metafiles aren't simply mixed in with the normal user files.

Ian C.