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

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:50:32AM -0600, Josh England wrote:
> 
> > > direction and not at least consider people storing actual ACLs (or even
> > > other extended attributes). An already-standard format like that
> > 
> > Do you mean using acls through contrib/hooks/update-paranoid?  That is
> > the only place I see any mention of them.  clean and smudge seem out
> > because they are passed blob objects and have no notion of pathname.  I
> > don't see how to use this for automatic storing/restoring of
> > perms/ownership.
> 
> No, I mean filesystem ACLs. Your complaint is that git stores only the
> file _content_, not some specific metadata that you want (owner, group,
> permissions). My point is that there is _other_ metadata, too (such as
> POSIX ACLs) that could be stored. Even if you don't want to store them,
> if you are extending git's capabilities, it makes sense to at least
> consider how to handle those cases, too.
> 
> But yes, clean and smudge don't get the pathname. It would be a fairly
> trivial patch, though, so maybe I'll play with it.