On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:27:56PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote: >> Is there a reason not to handle device files other than "its not traditional"? That's the only reason given in google or the IRC channel. > > In linux you can't create device files if your not root. On windows > those files won't even exists (afaik). > > Wouldn't this be very unportable and hard to use (meaning that you need > to handle your git repo as root or give git setuid root)? Device files will probably never be supported by Git for the reasons mentioned by Fredrik. If anything, etckeeper (http://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/) would be a much more appropriate place to support this, although I don't think it currently does. Alternatively, you could follow the suggestions of http://superuser.com/questions/440873/git-unable-add-device-file (and elsewhere), and write a script for generating the device files, rather than storing them as-is. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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