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Re: [PATCH] Support precise tracking of file modes

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 18:46 UTC
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<20060119184614.GG28365@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:25:03PM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Taking "quick'n'dirty" to the extreme _and_ combining it with Linus'
> > attitude to testing and documentation... ;-)
> 
> It is premature for us mere mortals to imitate Linus in that
> aspect by at least ten years ;-).  Please don't.
Yes, it was really just kind of proof-of-concept patch.
> About the content of the change, if we were to do this, we need
> to also record owner and group. recording full permissions
> without recording owner and group does not make much sense.

This would require much larger changes to the tree structure while we can get this essentially for free and I believe it covers most of the usage scenarios. In my /etc, all but two files are owned by root.root, and in my ~, all the dot-files are owned by pasky.users, while the permissions are a lot more varied.

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Message 10 of 16 in “/etc in git?”
  1. Adam HuntJan 19, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  3. Adam HuntJan 19, 2006
  4. H. Peter AnvinJan 19, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  6. Ryan AndersonJan 19, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  8. Support precise tracking of file modesPetr Baudis, Jan 19, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisJan 19, 2006
  11. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  12. Peter BaumannJan 20, 2006
  13. Ryan AndersonJan 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  15. Joel BeckerJan 19, 2006
  16. Daniel BarkalowJan 19, 2006

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