Re: git-add has gone lstat() mad

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 2007, March 31, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Given that git currently doesn't maintain any metadata other than
> +x/-x, how are you maintaining the metadata for your homedir items? 
> I know some schemes were discussed here in the past, but I'm curious
> as to what you settled on. For example, your .netrc file needs to be
> 600, but git won't track that.

I'm not maintaining anything as yet; the experiment so far consists 
of .bashrc only :-)

Just storing my .inputrc, .bashrc, .vimrc and .gitconfig in a repository 
is probably going to give me all that I want.  There aren't many other 
config files that I regularly update, and certainly not many that I 
update differently on different machines.

However, I plan to use a script to wrap the git calls so that I don't 
have to type GIT_WORK_DIR and GIT_DIR for every file I want to track.  
I plan to make it so that if you run this script with a checkout or 
other working tree changing command then I will run a function within 
it that reads the metadata out of a file that is stored in the 
repository which will restore those settings.

Ideally this functionality would be in hooks for pre-update-index and 
post-checkout-index or similar.  But I have a feeling that the 
potential for conflicts makes it hard to do in reality.



Andy
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