Hello, On 9/16/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> "Grzegorz" == Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Grzegorz> Not only for tracking /etc or /home but also for example for "web > Grzegorz> applications" (for example in PHP). In that case file and directory > Grzegorz> permissions can be as important as the source code tracked and it is pain to > Grzegorz> chmod (and sometimes chown) all files to different values after each > Grzegorz> checkout. Not speaking about potential race. > > Uh, works just fine for me to manage my web site content. The point is > that I treat git for what it is... a source code management system. > And then I have a Makefile that "installs" my source code into the live > directory, with the right modes during installation. > > Why does everyone keep wanting "work dir == live dir". Ugh! The work dir is > the *source*... it gets *copied* into your live dir *somehow*. And *that* is > where the meta information needs to be. In that "somehow". > Interesting. Could you show us what this makefile actually looks ? How would you create a repo to track /etc ? I'm thinking of importing this directory by using tar, do you think it's correct ? thanks. -- Francis - 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