From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:28:45 GMT Subject: Re: metastore Message-ID: <7vbqc25mgi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: david@lang.hm writes: > my initial thoughts were to have git do all it's normal work and hook > into git at the point where it's writing the file out (where today it > chooses between writing the data to a file on disk, pipeing to stdout, > or pipeing to a pager) by adding the option to pipe into a different > program that would deal with the permission stuff. this program would > only have to write the file and set the permissions, it wouldn't have > to know anything about git other then where to find the permissions it > needs to know. > > it sounds like you are suggesting that the hook be much earlier in the > process,... Well, you misread me or what I said was confusing or both. I was suggesting totally opposite. Let git do all its normal work, and then call your hook to munge the work tree in any way you want.