Re: git-add has gone lstat() mad

On Saturday 2007, March 31, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

Given that git currently doesn't maintain any metadata other than
+x/-x, how are you maintaining the metadata for your homedir items? 
I know some schemes were discussed here in the past, but I'm curious
as to what you settled on. For example, your .netrc file needs to be
600, but git won't track that.

I'm not maintaining anything as yet; the experiment so far consists 
of .bashrc only :-)

Just storing my .inputrc, .bashrc, .vimrc and .gitconfig in a repository 
is probably going to give me all that I want.  There aren't many other 
config files that I regularly update, and certainly not many that I 
update differently on different machines.

However, I plan to use a script to wrap the git calls so that I don't 
have to type GIT_WORK_DIR and GIT_DIR for every file I want to track.  
I plan to make it so that if you run this script with a checkout or 
other working tree changing command then I will run a function within 
it that reads the metadata out of a file that is stored in the 
repository which will restore those settings.

Ideally this functionality would be in hooks for pre-update-index and 
post-checkout-index or similar.  But I have a feeling that the 
potential for conflicts makes it hard to do in reality.



Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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