Re: tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories]

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 24, 2007, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708241136301.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1187905879.5986.199.camel@beauty>

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Josh England wrote:

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> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So here's the initial thought.  Create two new gitattributes, 'perms'
> and 'ownership', which will track perms/ownership for files matching the
> given pattern.

I wonder why you do not just use the "smudge" and "clean" attributes, and store the ownership _and_ the permissions in .gitacls.

Yes, _maybe_ it is something other people might want, too, but let's start quick & easy, no?

Ciao, Dscho