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

Nix [off-list ref] writes:

On 19 Jul 2007, David Kastrup stated:

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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.

Actually, tracking permissions would be cheap: one just needs to
replace the permission-munging macros in git with identity.  Ownership
-- well, that's harder.

But my sentiment remains: git _tracks_ stuff: it notices when things
move around and follows them.  Statically snapshotting permissions
creates a layer that is quite less flexible.  The information gets
detached.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum