> On 12/10/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
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>> I've recently become somewhat interested in the idea of using GIT  
>> to store the contents of various folders in /etc.  However after a  
>> bit of playing with this, I discovered that GIT doesn't actually  
>> preserve all permission bits since that would cause problems with  
>> the more traditional software development model.  I'm curious if  
>> anyone has done this before; and if so, how they went about  
>> handling the permissions and ownership issues.
>>
>> I spent a little time looking over how GIT stores and compares  
>> permission bits; trying to figure out if it's possible to patch in  
>> a new configuration variable or two; say "preserve_all_perms" and  
>> "preserve_owner", or maybe even "save_acls".  It looks like  
>> standard permission preservation is fairly basic; you would just  
>> need to patch a few routines which alter the permissions read in  
>> from disk or compare them with ones from the database.  On the  
>> other hand, it would appear that preserving ownership or full  
>> POSIX ACLs might be a bit of a challenge.

On Dec 10, 2006, at 10:06:14, Santi B