Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> "Josh England" <jjengla@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > Looking at the index struct, it already has fields in it for file mode >> > uid and gid (woohoo!). >> >> I can see that storing textual names in gitattributes and having >> the root user run git so that it can chown(), would work. > > Well, the nice thing is that even non-root can actually resolve > merge conflicts and generally use the archive, even if non-root > obviously cannot then actually set the files to those users/groups! > > So handling ownership outside of the actual filesystem, in a > separate file that git tracks, actually allows you to do things that > you couldn't otherwise sanely do. Well, about that "sane" bit: I don't see an application for tracking unrestorable ownership values. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
