From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:30:41 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708251629320.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070824100524.GA17348@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:38:13AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why you do not just use the "smudge" and "clean" attributes, and 
> > store the ownership _and_ the permissions in .gitacls.
> 
> Thinking about this more, are you proposing:
> 
> 1. Clean and smudge every file, looking up the attributes in .gitacls.

Yes, this is what I thought about.  And I'd just have looked up the file 
name by sha1.

The clean/smudge filter would update .gitacls in the index, too...

Ciao,
Dscho