From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: File archiver using git Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:34:04 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <3bbc18d20608270610o102968d2kd340d40843262dc5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 27 17:35:20 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 1GHMfI-000362-Ru for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:35:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751075AbWH0PfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:35:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751078AbWH0PfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:35:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55433 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbWH0PfG (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:35:06 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GHMf8-00033t-KT for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:35:02 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-21-215.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.21.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:35:02 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-21-215.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:35:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-21-215.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matt McCutchen wrote: >> Dear git people, >> >> You might like the two attached scripts that I wrote around git to >> pack file trees containing lots of redundancy into very small >> packages. For example, if I have ten slightly different versions of a >> piece of software because I didn't use version control, I can use >> gitar to compress them together. > > Does it (and GIT in general) work ok with file permisions, ownership, soft > and hard links, named sockets, device files and similar "strange" > filesystem objects? Do I need any options to GIT to make it work with > them? Git in general only preserves executable bit, deals with symlinks, hardlinks after a fashion (stored once, but unpacked/checked out as separate files, not hardlinked), and does not deal with other "strange" filesystem objects as far as I know. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git