Re: [PATCH] Support precise tracking of file modes

Dear diary, on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:25:03PM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Taking "quick'n'dirty" to the extreme _and_ combining it with Linus'
attitude to testing and documentation... ;-)

It is premature for us mere mortals to imitate Linus in that
aspect by at least ten years ;-).  Please don't.

Yes, it was really just kind of proof-of-concept patch.

About the content of the change, if we were to do this, we need
to also record owner and group. recording full permissions
without recording owner and group does not make much sense.

This would require much larger changes to the tree structure while we
can get this essentially for free and I believe it covers most of the
usage scenarios. In my /etc, all but two files are owned by root.root,
and in my ~, all the dot-files are owned by pasky.users, while the
permissions are a lot more varied.

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