From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:12:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git and mtime
Message-ID: <49256223.1090206@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <49255CBA.4030709@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> For this, and some other uses I have in mind for git, it would be
>> great if git could store some more components of the inode
>> metadata in the tree, such as:
>> - mtime
>> - user
>> - group
>> - full permissions
>> - and also allow storage of the full range of file types (i.e.
>>   block, character, pipe, etc.)
>>
>> This would allow git to be used as the basis for a complete
>> functional versioned filesystem (which I'd like to use for my
>> lightweight virtualisation tool, schroot, which currently
>> uses LVM snapshots for this purpose).
>>
> 
> I believe someone else has done some work along the way of
> turning git into complete-with-metadata backupsystem before.
> Google might prove beneficial.
> 

Although now that I come to think of it, storing "user" and
"group" made it near-enough totally useless for anything a
user had created as the repos hardly ever could be shared.

I'll say it again; Hooks can be written to handle this.

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