From: "Jim MacBaine" <jmacbaine@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cg-status and empty directories
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:39:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3afbacad0602271039v21a255adndb7a2cbd2992c67a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44031941.1020806@op5.se>
On 2/27/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> I'm afraid not.
>
> You should also note that git doesn't track permissions exactly. It just
> notices an execution bit and uses it to determine if it should write the
> working tree using (0666 ^ umask) or (0777 ^ umask). This makes it
> fairly unsuitable for /etc tracking unless you add some sort of
> permission restoring thing to it.
I'm aware of those limitations. It is not a backup mechanism at all
and permissions are handled by a small perl script.
However, I'm just curious to know, why cg-status suddenly started to
care about empty directories.
Regards,
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 14:43 cg-status and empty directories Jim MacBaine
2006-02-27 15:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 18:39 ` Jim MacBaine [this message]
2006-03-26 14:25 ` [PATCH] Do not ever list empty directories in git-ls-files --others Petr Baudis
2006-03-26 14:59 ` [PATCH] Optionally do not " Petr Baudis
2006-03-26 21:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-26 21:37 ` cg-status and empty directories Petr Baudis
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