Re: cg-status and empty directories

On 2/27/06, Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm afraid not.

You should also note that git doesn't track permissions exactly. It just
notices an execution bit and uses it to determine if it should write the
working tree using (0666 ^ umask) or (0777 ^ umask). This makes it
fairly unsuitable for /etc tracking unless you add some sort of
permission restoring thing to it.

I'm aware of those limitations. It is not a backup mechanism at all
and permissions are handled by a small perl script.

However, I'm just curious to know, why cg-status suddenly started to
care about empty directories.

Regards,
Jim