From: Francis Moreau Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:04:18 GMT Subject: Re: metastore Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709170604u8f4474fyd990f61fb250bc93@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86veaby050.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Hello, On 9/16/07, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Grzegorz" == Grzegorz Kulewski 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