RE: empty directories

From: Jason Garber <jgarber@ionzoft.com>
Date: Aug 24, 2007, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <E7DE807861E8474E8AC3DC7AC2C75EE50329676F@34093-EVS2C1.exchange.rackspace.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708221618510.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

> But if .gitattributes would work, you probably could introduce both

full

> permissions and ownership rules there. We read git attributes for

*other*

> reasons when checking files out _anyway_, ie we need the CRLF

attribute

> stuff, so adding ownership attributes would not be at all odd.
>
> 		Linus

And as a side-note, it would be quite trivial to write a script to initially populate a .gitattributes file cleanly (and regen when needed).

~ JasonG

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