Re: tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories]

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:38:13AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > So here's the initial thought.  Create two new gitattributes, 'perms'
> > > and 'ownership', which will track perms/ownership for files matching the
> > > given pattern.
> > 
> > I wonder why you do not just use the "smudge" and "clean" attributes, and 
> > store the ownership _and_ the permissions in .gitacls.
> > 
> > Yes, _maybe_ it is something other people might want, too, but let's start 
> > quick & easy, no?
> 
> Yes, I think that is a much better idea. Perhaps they aren't that
> popular among this crowd, but it seems silly to develop in this
> direction and not at least consider people storing actual ACLs (or even
> other extended attributes). An already-standard format like that
> produced by 'getfacl' should make this pretty trivial (and handles
> regular unix permissions at the same time).