From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:50:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits)
Message-ID: <dbfc82860612110250g73708f7al88c1b50acb2c0dcd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <787BE48C-1808-4A33-A368-5E8A3F00C787@mac.com>

On 12/10/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
> I've recently become somewhat interested in the idea of using GIT to
> store the contents of various folders in /etc.  However after a bit
> of playing with this, I discovered that GIT doesn't actually preserve
> all permission bits since that would cause problems with the more
> traditional software development model.  I'm curious if anyone has
> done this before; and if so, how they went about handling the
> permissions and ownership issues.

I keep the files I want to track in a separate folder that I track
with Git and use a Makefile for updating /etc.  I basically have a
rule for checking for differences between the tracked folder and /etc
and a rule for installing changed files (with the correct
permissions).  It works, but it does require some "Makefile magic" to
work right (or the way /I/ want it anyway).