Re: tracking perms/ownership

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:11 -0600, Josh England wrote:

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:08 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Of course, you would need to worry about resolving merge
conflicts of gitattributes file, too.

I'm still confused on things.  So, with all perms/ownership stored
as .gitattributes, would mucking around with the index still be
necessary?  I'm not too sure what to do about merge conflicts.

OK, let me know if this is completely off-base.  perms/ownership can be
stored in the index at update-index time and restored maybe at
checkout-index time.  Calls to write-tree and read-tree can
store/retrieve the perms/ownership data from a .gitattributes file
somewhere; and something sane needs to be done about merging.  Does this
sound reasonable enough for a first cut?

-JE