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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-cache-meta -- simple file meta data caching and applying
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:28:18 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't handle paths which contain white-space. "chown" is typo'd
> as "chowm". To be useful, the contribution might also include
> instructions on how it should be used with git, and perhaps also
> reasoning for why someone would want to use it in place of etckeeper,
> metastore, setgitperms, etc.

It will also blow-up if the output of "git ls-files" exceeds
limitations on number of arguments. Also, might be worth mentioning it
requires GNU find.

j.