Re: empty directories

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

[Cc: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>, git@vger.kernel.org]

Josh England wrote:

> [...]  The main need is for file
> ownership/permission, which has been touched on before.  When I clone
> an image, I really want an *identical* clone, in every way.  It seems
> as though git had this functionality but scrapped it due to issues with
> umask and merge type problems?  So the question is:  would there be any
> way to bring this functionality back as a non-default configurable
> option?  For those of us who need the functionality, we'd be more than
> willing to live with some of the side-effects.
> 
> The alternatives (involving wrappers and strict policy) just haven't
> been idiot-proof enough to be truly viable.  It almost has to be a
> built-in capability.  It looks like Nax is doing something close to
> this.  Is there anyone else using trying to use git in a similar way?

Check out (via e.g. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
wiki page) IsiSetup which is tool to manage configuration files (including
permissions) which uses git as engine, and metastore which is meant as
tool to use in appropriate hook for storing/restoring permissions etc.

And as Linus told you, if you have time to work on it, you can try to
make .gitattributes work for this...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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