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

> 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.