Oh yes, I can announce that from now on, the development version of GitFileTree for Pharo 5 handles FileTree repositories without most of the metadata (precisely version and methodProperties). This makes the format a lot more DVCS friendly (Git, Fossil, Hg, SVN, all...) by cutting the noise on diffs and conflicts on merge and cherry picking. Note: it only apply to brand new repositories; nothing is changed for pre-existing ones. Note2: reading those Metadata-less repositories with FileTree does give you packages without metadata: no version history, no author, no author nor timestamp on methods. Note3: it is possible to hack a repo from metadata to non-metadata mode, but I won't explain it. Enjoy and tell me how it works for you. I'm especially interested by heavy branchers/mergers reports :) Thierry