From: Jason Garber <jgarber@ionzoft.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:10:10 GMT
Subject: RE: empty directories
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