Re: File archiver using git

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2006, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <ecse17$2q3$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608271528130.8018@alpha.polcom.net>

Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

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> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>> Dear git people,
>>
>> You might like the two attached scripts that I wrote around git to
>> pack file trees containing lots of redundancy into very small
>> packages.  For example, if I have ten slightly different versions of a
>> piece of software because I didn't use version control, I can use
>> gitar to compress them together.
> 
> Does it (and GIT in general) work ok with file permisions, ownership, soft 
> and hard links, named sockets, device files and similar "strange" 
> filesystem objects? Do I need any options to GIT to make it work with 
> them?

Git in general only preserves executable bit, deals with symlinks, hardlinks after a fashion (stored once, but unpacked/checked out as separate files, not hardlinked), and does not deal with other "strange" filesystem objects as far as I know.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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