# Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git? 4 messages from 2007-11-01 to 2007-11-01. Participants: Alexander Skwar, Miklos Vajna, Jeff King, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10559 ## Alexander Skwar, 2007-11-01 12:55 Subject: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20071101T123817-247%40post.gmane.org ``` Hello. I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers. What's quite nice with git (in comparison to svn) is, that it out-of-the-box stores the permissions of a file. But it doesn't seem like it stores the ownership (ie. user/group) of tracked content. Does anyone know how to cope with that "problem"? Oh, and it also seems that Git doesn't store the time information of files, does it? For tracking /etc, this would be very useful. Would anyone have a solution for this as well? What I'm thinking about right now is, to write a "hook" script which "dumps" the stats of the to-be added files in some "index" file. But that seems like a rather clumsy soltion... It would be great of someone could maybe share his solution! Thanks a lot, Alexander ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2007-11-01 13:09 Subject: Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git? Message-ID: <20071101130928.GH27987@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071101130928.GH27987%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-7e70881352ec207609dc4d7eedbd0532946a5825 - VMiklos ``` ## Jeff King, 2007-11-01 13:10 Subject: Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git? Message-ID: <20071101131043.GA19914@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071101131043.GA19914%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers. > What's quite nice with git (in comparison to svn) is, that it > out-of-the-box stores the permissions of a file. But it doesn't seem It doesn't; git stores only the executable bit. > like it stores the ownership (ie. user/group) of tracked content. > Does anyone know how to cope with that "problem"? Yes, convert your file metadata into a text format in a file in the repository, and commit that. > Oh, and it also seems that Git doesn't store the time information of > files, does it? For tracking /etc, this would be very useful. Would > anyone have a solution for this as well? Same as above. > What I'm thinking about right now is, to write a "hook" script which > "dumps" the stats of the to-be added files in some "index" file. But > that seems like a rather clumsy soltion... That's more or less the solution that has been advocated. Search in the list archives for /etc solutions; this topic comes up every few months. -Peff ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2007-11-01 15:42 Subject: Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fgcrvd%24s03%241%40ger.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20071101130928.GH27987@genesis.frugalware.org> ``` Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers. > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-7e70881352ec207609dc4d7eedbd0532946a5825 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools search for Metastore -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git ```