Re: empty directories

From: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 15:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1187882648.5986.171.camel@beauty>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708221618510.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> But if .gitattributes would work, you probably could introduce both full 
> permissions and ownership rules there. We read git attributes for *other* 
> reasons when checking files out _anyway_, ie we need the CRLF attribute 
> stuff, so adding ownership attributes would not be at all odd.

OK, this looks like it has the desired effect. commits/pulls/etc catch and update the execute bit. I'll try to find how .gitattributes hooks in. Any pointers/tips are appreciated.

-JE

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