From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:34:04 GMT Subject: Re: File archiver using git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > 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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git