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Re: git-cache-meta -- simple file meta data caching and applying

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2009, 00:28 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It doesn't handle paths which contain white-space. "chown" is typo'd
> as "chowm". To be useful, the contribution might also include
> instructions on how it should be used with git, and perhaps also
> reasoning for why someone would want to use it in place of etckeeper,
> metastore, setgitperms, etc.

It will also blow-up if the output of "git ls-files" exceeds limitations on number of arguments. Also, might be worth mentioning it requires GNU find.

j.
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