From: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:50:32 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories]
Message-ID: <1187970632.6357.108.camel@beauty>
In-Reply-To: <20070824095217.GB16853@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 05:52 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 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).

Do you mean using acls through contrib/hooks/update-paranoid?  That is
the only place I see any mention of them.  clean and smudge seem out
because they are passed blob objects and have no notion of pathname.  I
don't see how to use this for automatic storing/restoring of
perms/ownership.

-JE