On 02/23/2012 05:36 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: >> Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 >> 2012: >>> What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for >>> /etc. >> What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only >> permissions that git stores is the executable bit. > > But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific > ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the > fact that /etc/shadow should only be readable by root, for instance. > > I don't think Git will change permissions on existing files in your > working directory, but if you ever cloned your /etc repo onto another > machine, the permissions would be screwed up. Hi we're using http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ for that purpose greets, Dennis
