From: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:05 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership
Message-ID: <1187972825.6357.125.camel@beauty>
In-Reply-To: <1187971879.6357.117.camel@beauty>

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:11 -0600, Josh England wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:08 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Of course, you would need to worry about resolving merge
> > conflicts of gitattributes file, too.
> 
> I'm still confused on things.  So, with all perms/ownership stored
> as .gitattributes, would mucking around with the index still be
> necessary?  I'm not too sure what to do about merge conflicts.

OK, let me know if this is completely off-base.  perms/ownership can be
stored in the index at update-index time and restored maybe at
checkout-index time.  Calls to write-tree and read-tree can
store/retrieve the perms/ownership data from a .gitattributes file
somewhere; and something sane needs to be done about merging.  Does this
sound reasonable enough for a first cut?

-JE