From: Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:39:51 GMT
Subject: Re: cg-status and empty directories
Message-ID: <3afbacad0602271039v21a255adndb7a2cbd2992c67a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44031941.1020806@op5.se>

On 2/27/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> I'm afraid not.
>
> You should also note that git doesn't track permissions exactly. It just
> notices an execution bit and uses it to determine if it should write the
> working tree using (0666 ^ umask) or (0777 ^ umask). This makes it
> fairly unsuitable for /etc tracking unless you add some sort of
> permission restoring thing to it.

I'm aware of those limitations. It is not a backup mechanism at all
and permissions are handled by a small perl script.

However, I'm just curious to know, why cg-status suddenly started to
care about empty directories.

Regards,
Jim