Andreas Ericsson wrote:
Roger Leigh wrote:
For this, and some other uses I have in mind for git, it would be
great if git could store some more components of the inode
metadata in the tree, such as:
- mtime
- user
- group
- full permissions
- and also allow storage of the full range of file types (i.e.
block, character, pipe, etc.)
This would allow git to be used as the basis for a complete
functional versioned filesystem (which I'd like to use for my
lightweight virtualisation tool, schroot, which currently
uses LVM snapshots for this purpose).
I believe someone else has done some work along the way of
turning git into complete-with-metadata backupsystem before.
Google might prove beneficial.
Although now that I come to think of it, storing "user" and
"group" made it near-enough totally useless for anything a
user had created as the repos hardly ever could be shared.
I'll say it again; Hooks can be written to handle this.
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