Hello git family.
I'm looking for a way to reliably preserve permissions in a repository.
I found the excellent metastore-utility[1] (which also backs etckeeper), but it hooks into git-pull and can miss file overwrites caused by other operations.
The closest I found to a global "on-any-file-overwrite" hook would be the "smudge" filter-command as described in gitattributes(5).
Unfortunately the smudge-command seems to never learn about a filename but merely filters stdin -> stdout.
The regular hooks don't cut it either, as for example the git-merge hook doesn't run on partial merges ("XXX needs update").
So, is there a way to run a script after git has overwritten any local file for any reason?
Best, Moe
[1] http://git.hardeman.nu/?p=metastore.git