From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:44:59 +0200 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20070820204459.GA10173@glandium.org> References: <20070820174142.GA7943@glandium.org> <867inqhyuk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070820181357.GA8264@glandium.org> <86zm0mgicy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070820184829.GA8617@glandium.org> <20070820194328.GE8542@efreet.light.src> <20070820195037.GA9774@glandium.org> <20070820200719.GE5544@steel.home> <20070820201042.GA9942@glandium.org> <85y7g6ndj9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 20 22:46:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INE8p-0004UV-UC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:46:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752799AbXHTUqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751964AbXHTUqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:23 -0400 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:55748 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751834AbXHTUqW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:22 -0400 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-3-249.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.124.49.249] helo=namakemono.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1INE8c-0000rV-2o; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:46:15 +0200 Received: from mh by namakemono.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INE7P-0002eJ-Gb; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:44:59 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85y7g6ndj9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.0): Status=No hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:42:34PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > >> Mike Hommey, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 21:50:37 +0200: > >> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:43:28PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: > >> > > Git does not have tracking of file's history either. > >> > > >> > Well, it has ways to track file's history, with blame and log, for > >> > example. There is nothing similar for directories, though it could be > >> > possible to do. > >> > >> It would be not exactly "tracking". You can present the history of > >> changes which involved the said directory. > >> > >> And you could do it from day one: git log -- sub/dir > > > > It could be possible to really do tracking, too, like it is possible for > > files (including renames, moves, etc.) > > You are confused. Git does not track renames or moves for files, > either. It just records snapshots. It reverse engineers renames, > moves, copying when cranking out diffs and logs and blames. Yes, I know. And that could be done for directories, too. Mike