Re: metastore

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2007, 13:04 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709170604u8f4474fyd990f61fb250bc93@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86veaby050.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Hello,

On 9/16/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

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> >>>>> "Grzegorz" == Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> writes:
>
> Grzegorz> Not only for tracking /etc or /home but also for example for "web
> Grzegorz> applications" (for example in PHP). In that case file and directory
> Grzegorz> permissions can be as important as the source code tracked and it is pain to
> Grzegorz> chmod (and sometimes chown) all files to different values after each
> Grzegorz> checkout. Not speaking about potential race.
>
> Uh, works just fine for me to manage my web site content.  The point is
> that I treat git for what it is... a source code management system.
> And then I have a Makefile that "installs" my source code into the live
> directory, with the right modes during installation.
>
> Why does everyone keep wanting "work dir == live dir".  Ugh!  The work dir is
> the *source*... it gets *copied* into your live dir *somehow*.  And *that* is
> where the meta information needs to be.  In that "somehow".
>

Interesting. Could you show us what this makefile actually looks ?

How would you create a repo to track /etc ? I'm thinking of importing this directory by using tar, do you think it's correct ?

thanks.

-- 
Francis