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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 24, 2007, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20070824100524.GA17348@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708241136301.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:38:13AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> I wonder why you do not just use the "smudge" and "clean" attributes, and 
> store the ownership _and_ the permissions in .gitacls.

Thinking about this more, are you proposing:

1. Clean and smudge every file, looking up the attributes in .gitacls.
In that case, I think they are not sufficient because the filter script
receives only the blob content on stdin, but never sees the filename.

or

2. Clean and smudge .gitacls, munging the file permissions as a side
effect. In this case, won't some git operations that write the files
break your permissions (i.e., if I update "foo" but not .gitacls, then
the .gitacls filter won't be run and I will be left with git's default
permissions).

-Peff