Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

> On 19 Jul 2007, David Kastrup stated:
>> Tomash Brechko <tomash.brechko@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Please consider this: I myself use Git to track my own local
>>> projects, and for this usage you proposal have no value for me,
>>> i.e. as a _Source_ Code Management system Git is rather complete.
>>> But I also track /etc and ~/ in Git, and for this I'd love to have
>>> directories, permissions, ownership, other attributes, to be
>>> tracked.  I have Perl script wrapping Git that allows me to filter
>>> tracked paths by full regexps instead of Git's file globs, and also
>>> to filter out too big files assuming that they are binary anyway.
>>
>> Look, git _tracks_ contents.  Your permissions managements needs to
>> be told explicitly when and how things change.  So you end up with
>> git _tracking_ material and your permissions/directory management
>> needing the level of manual handholding Subversion demands.
>
> Actually, if we had a post-checkout hook, we could use a pre-commit
> hook to keep track of directory existence, permissions, et seq, and
> a post- checkout hook to restore them.