From: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:24:08 GMT
Subject: Re: empty directories
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