From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:27:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support precise tracking of file modes
Message-ID: <81b0412b0601200727r516059f1n1d3fc7b33473ed66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vacdsdqio.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 1/19/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > Taking "quick'n'dirty" to the extreme _and_ combining it with Linus'
> > attitude to testing and documentation... ;-)
>
> It is premature for us mere mortals to imitate Linus in that
> aspect by at least ten years ;-).  Please don't.
>
> About the content of the change, if we were to do this, we need
> to also record owner and group. recording full permissions
> without recording owner and group does not make much sense.
>

Maybe implement tracking of a generic file attribute would be a better idea?
So that porcellans can implement permissions/ownership/EA themselves,
if they really want to...