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From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: "Grzegorz Kulewski" <kangur@polcom.net>,
	"martin f krafft" <madduck@madduck.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: metastore
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:04:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709170604u8f4474fyd990f61fb250bc93@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86veaby050.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Hello,

On 9/16/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Grzegorz" == Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> writes:
>
> Grzegorz> Not only for tracking /etc or /home but also for example for "web
> Grzegorz> applications" (for example in PHP). In that case file and directory
> Grzegorz> permissions can be as important as the source code tracked and it is pain to
> Grzegorz> chmod (and sometimes chown) all files to different values after each
> Grzegorz> checkout. Not speaking about potential race.
>
> Uh, works just fine for me to manage my web site content.  The point is
> that I treat git for what it is... a source code management system.
> And then I have a Makefile that "installs" my source code into the live
> directory, with the right modes during installation.
>
> Why does everyone keep wanting "work dir == live dir".  Ugh!  The work dir is
> the *source*... it gets *copied* into your live dir *somehow*.  And *that* is
> where the meta information needs to be.  In that "somehow".
>

Interesting. Could you show us what this makefile actually looks ?

How would you create a repo to track /etc ? I'm thinking of importing
this directory by using tar, do you think it's correct ?

thanks.
-- 
Francis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <38b2ab8a0709130511q7a506c5cvb0f8785a1d7ed7ad@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20070913123137.GA31735@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
     [not found]   ` <38b2ab8a0709140108v2a9c3569i93b39f351f1d4ec3@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20070914091545.GA26432@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
2007-09-14 17:31       ` Track /etc directory using Git Thomas Harning Jr.
2007-09-14 21:26         ` Nicolas Vilz
2007-09-15 14:29           ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-15 15:24             ` martin f krafft
2007-09-15 15:27               ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-15 15:42                 ` martin f krafft
2007-09-15 13:26         ` metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) martin f krafft
2007-09-15 14:10           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-15 14:16             ` metastore David Kastrup
2007-09-15 14:54             ` metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) martin f krafft
2007-09-15 16:22               ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2007-09-15 17:43                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-15 23:33                 ` metastore Randal L. Schwartz
2007-09-16  0:37                   ` metastore david
2007-09-16  1:10                     ` metastore Randal L. Schwartz
2007-09-16  1:49                       ` metastore david
2007-09-17 13:04                   ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2007-09-17 15:32                     ` metastore Randal L. Schwartz
2007-09-15 19:56               ` metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) Daniel Barkalow
2007-09-15 22:14                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-16  1:30                   ` david
2007-09-16  2:48                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-16  3:00                       ` david
2007-09-16  8:06                     ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-16  8:30                       ` metastore David Kastrup
2007-09-16 20:19                         ` metastore david
2007-09-16 15:51                       ` metastore Daniel Barkalow
2007-09-16 21:12                         ` metastore david
2007-09-16 21:28                           ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-16 21:45                             ` metastore Daniel Barkalow
2007-09-16 21:53                             ` metastore david
2007-09-16 22:02                           ` metastore Daniel Barkalow
2007-09-16 22:37                             ` metastore david
2007-09-17 13:30                               ` metastore martin f krafft
2007-09-17 17:17                                 ` metastore david
2007-09-17 19:46                                   ` metastore Josh England
2007-09-16 21:45                       ` metastore david
2007-09-16 22:11                         ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-16 22:52                           ` metastore david
2007-09-17  0:58                             ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-17  2:31                               ` metastore david
2007-09-17  4:23                                 ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-17  4:35                                   ` metastore david
2007-09-17  6:06                                     ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-17 17:42                                   ` metastore Daniel Barkalow
2007-09-17 19:19                                     ` metastore Junio C Hamano
2007-09-16 15:59                     ` metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) Jan Hudec
2007-09-16 20:36                       ` david
2007-09-16  6:14                   ` martin f krafft
2007-09-16 15:51                     ` Jan Hudec
2007-09-16 19:43                       ` david
2007-09-17 13:31                       ` martin f krafft
2007-09-16  1:35                 ` david
2007-09-16  6:08                 ` martin f krafft
2007-09-19 19:16                   ` David Härdeman
2007-10-02 19:53                     ` martin f krafft
2007-10-02 19:58                       ` David Härdeman
2007-10-02 20:04                         ` metastore David Kastrup
2007-10-02 20:18                           ` metastore david
2007-10-02 20:23                             ` metastore martin f krafft
2007-10-02 20:29                               ` metastore david
2007-10-02 20:39                                 ` metastore martin f krafft
2007-10-02 20:54                                   ` metastore david
2007-10-02 21:42                                     ` metastore martin f krafft
2007-10-02 21:15                           ` metastore David Härdeman
2007-10-02 21:44                             ` metastore martin f krafft
2007-10-02 23:32                             ` metastore Julian Phillips
2007-10-03  0:52                               ` metastore david
2007-10-03  0:52                                 ` metastore Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-02 21:02                         ` metastore (was: Track /etc directory using Git) Daniel Barkalow
     [not found] ` <20070913122002.GO671@genesis.frugalware.org>
     [not found]   ` <38b2ab8a0709140120k50f5b474oc8a841ea0a5fda50@mail.gmail.com>
2007-09-15 16:32     ` Track /etc directory using Git martin f krafft
2007-09-15 16:57       ` David Kastrup

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