Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

On 19 Jul 2007, David Kastrup stated:

Tomash Brechko [off-list ref] writes:

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Please consider this: I myself use Git to track my own local
projects, and for this usage you proposal have no value for me,
i.e. as a _Source_ Code Management system Git is rather complete.
But I also track /etc and ~/ in Git, and for this I'd love to have
directories, permissions, ownership, other attributes, to be
tracked.  I have Perl script wrapping Git that allows me to filter
tracked paths by full regexps instead of Git's file globs, and also
to filter out too big files assuming that they are binary anyway.

Look, git _tracks_ contents.  Your permissions managements needs to be
told explicitly when and how things change.  So you end up with git
_tracking_ material and your permissions/directory management needing
the level of manual handholding Subversion demands.

Actually, if we had a post-checkout hook, we could use a pre-commit hook
to keep track of directory existence, permissions, et seq, and a post-
checkout hook to restore them.

(But we don't, at least not yet. Adding one is probably quite easy.)