Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits)

> I've recently become somewhat interested in the idea of using GIT to
> store the contents of various folders in /etc.  However after a bit
> of playing with this, I discovered that GIT doesn't actually preserve
> all permission bits since that would cause problems with the more
> traditional software development model.  I'm curious if anyone has
> done this before; and if so, how they went about handling the
> permissions and ownership issues.
>
> I spent a little time looking over how GIT stores and compares
> permission bits; trying to figure out if it's possible to patch in a
> new configuration variable or two; say "preserve_all_perms" and
> "preserve_owner", or maybe even "save_acls".  It looks like standard
> permission preservation is fairly basic; you would just need to patch
> a few routines which alter the permissions read in from disk or
> compare them with ones from the database.  On the other hand, it
> would appear that preserving ownership or full POSIX ACLs might be a
> bit of a challenge.
>
> Thanks for your insight and advice!