From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:59:13 GMT
Subject: Re: metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git)
Message-ID: <20070916155913.GB30476@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151737400.24221@asgard.lang.hm>

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 18:30:53 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> 1. whatever is trying to write the files with the correct permissions
>    needs to be able to query the permission store before files are
>    written. This needs to either be an API call into git to retreive the
>    information for any file when it's written, or the ability to define a
>    specific file to be checked out first so that it can be used for
>    everything else.

You seem to be forgetting about the index. Git never writes trees directly to
filesystem, but always with intermediate step in the index. So the API
actually exists -- simply read from the index.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>