Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git?

Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git?

[Alexander Skwar]

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

Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git?

[Miklos Vajna]

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers.

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-7e70881352ec207609dc4d7eedbd0532946a5825

- VMiklos

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Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git?

[Jeff King]

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

Re: Managing /etc with git: Store ownership and time in git?

[Jakub Narebski]

Miklos Vajna wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> 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

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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