Re: Metadata and checkin file date
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Apr 27, 2010, 09:22 UTC
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On 04/27/2010 07:23 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
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> Hello, > > I'm new to git and I'm looking for the following features: > 1.) Metadata for > a.) directory versioning (e.g. add/rm, mv)
If you're talking about empty directories, that feature doesn't exist and I can't imagine why you'd want it to. If you'd care to explain why you want it, I'm sure we can find a different way of achieving your goal.
> b.) rights (basic: chmod, chow, chgrp, extended: extended attributes > like ACLs and selinux), necessary for versioning e.g. /etc
Sounds like you want a backup-program. Some projects have been aimed towards this goal already. I'm sure google can provide more information. AFAIR, most of them work with two hook-scripts that update a regular file with the meta-data of all tracked files. This makes committing and checking out slower than it would otherwise be, but since it's doing more I suppose that's to be expected.
Adding it to core git would mean re-designing git's basic data model, which is obviously not something we're about to do on a whim.
> 2.) Original file dates (checkin date) on clone and pull (and not > checkout date) >
I expect the solutions that work for 1b will also have this "feature", or that it will be easy to patch for it. For a source code management system though, this is a very bad idea indeed since it messes with the fundamental rules of building; A changed file must be rebuilt.
Seeing as this would also require a major change in git's data model, this is another of those changes that I doubt will be supported in the git core in the foreseeable future.
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