On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:57PM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'd like to use git to manage the /etc directories of some servers. > What's quite nice with git (in comparison to svn) is, that it > out-of-the-box stores the permissions of a file. But it doesn't seem It doesn't; git stores only the executable bit. > like it stores the ownership (ie. user/group) of tracked content. > Does anyone know how to cope with that "problem"? Yes, convert your file metadata into a text format in a file in the repository, and commit that. > Oh, and it also seems that Git doesn't store the time information of > files, does it? For tracking /etc, this would be very useful. Would > anyone have a solution for this as well? Same as above. > What I'm thinking about right now is, to write a "hook" script which > "dumps" the stats of the to-be added files in some "index" file. But > that seems like a rather clumsy soltion... That's more or less the solution that has been advocated. Search in the list archives for /etc solutions; this topic comes up every few months. -Peff - 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
