From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 23:16:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content
Message-ID: <7v1x8nuchr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <42780185.7010204@zytor.com>

>>>>> "HPA" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

HPA> Owner and permissions are part of the tree object, and apply to all
HPA> file types.

Huh?  I am confused...  Do you mean tree object should be
changed to record these?  That would make the existing in-cache
merging of files, which GIT was built for, quite interesting...

Well, doing device nodes _is_ a tangent, so let's drop this
discussion.