Re: tracking perms/ownership

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes: 
>> > Looking at the index struct, it already has fields in it for file mode
>> > uid and gid (woohoo!).
>> 
>> I can see that storing textual names in gitattributes and having
>> the root user run git so that it can chown(), would work.
>
> Well, the nice thing is that even non-root can actually resolve
> merge conflicts and generally use the archive, even if non-root
> obviously cannot then actually set the files to those users/groups!
>
> So handling ownership outside of the actual filesystem, in a
> separate file that git tracks, actually allows you to do things that
> you couldn't otherwise sanely do.