From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:04:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <856439o23l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070821053451.GA11153@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Tue\, 21 Aug 2007 07\:34\:51 +0200")
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> Anyways, that still doesn't say why all these permission bits are
> kept while only the executable bit matters, though it must be
> related to backwards compatibility of hashes.
It is not much that will in practice be retained. Keeping the whole
kaboodle (including uid and gid) makes git suitable for archival
purposes on Posixy platforms. The current code offers just a single
policy (suitable for distributed development) with regard to what it
maintains and stores (well, actually two: you can tell it to ignore
the execute bit from the file system), but it would be reasonably
straightforward to extend this with further policies.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-20 16:44 confused about preserved permissions martin f krafft
2007-08-20 16:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-08-20 17:38 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-20 17:41 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 17:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 18:13 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 18:44 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86zm0mgicy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-08-20 18:48 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 19:43 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 19:50 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:07 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-20 20:10 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:27 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 20:44 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:08 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 20:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 20:50 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 21:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-21 1:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-21 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-21 5:34 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-21 6:04 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-21 18:01 ` René Scharfe
2007-08-21 18:01 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update tar.umask default René Scharfe
2007-08-21 21:15 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-22 21:03 ` René Scharfe
2007-08-20 18:35 ` confused about preserved permissions Alex Riesen
2007-08-22 12:18 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-08-22 12:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-08-22 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 6:00 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-23 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-23 6:23 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-23 7:48 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-08-23 7:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 8:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-03 18:59 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-23 7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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