From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Perserving permissions? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:48:11 -0500 Message-ID: <44251FEB.70008@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 25 11:48:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FN6Jf-0001d7-SJ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:48:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751170AbWCYKsR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:48:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbWCYKsR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:48:17 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:28063 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170AbWCYKsQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:48:16 -0500 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.99]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.60 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1FN6Jb-0005WL-C1 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:48:15 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) To: Git Mailing List X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-2.5 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I just started using git to maintain some of my server config files. Leagues better than subversion, which I was previously using, but git still suffers from a key problem that subversion also has: lack of permission preservation. I understand that versioning permissions might be a big request, but what about simply storing the permissions at 'git add' time, to be used at checkout time? Right now I have to do 'git pull ; ./fix-perms' each time I update. Jeff