On 2/27/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'm afraid not. > > You should also note that git doesn't track permissions exactly. It just > notices an execution bit and uses it to determine if it should write the > working tree using (0666 ^ umask) or (0777 ^ umask). This makes it > fairly unsuitable for /etc tracking unless you add some sort of > permission restoring thing to it. I'm aware of those limitations. It is not a backup mechanism at all and permissions are handled by a small perl script. However, I'm just curious to know, why cg-status suddenly started to care about empty directories. Regards, Jim - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html