On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Jan. Was this choice made due to the conditional coding > required to track the permission bits content between *NIX and > non-*NIX platform(s)? The short answer is: because Git was designed to track content. The long answer is more complicated. Here's one of the more useful past discussions: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91783 I'm sure you can find others by searching the git list for "metadata". j. -- 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
