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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:30:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110023031.GC30765@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701091735490.7747@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> I want to have a tripwire-like system checking the files to make sure that 
> they haven't changed unexpectedly. the program I'm looking at notices inode 
> as well as timestamp and content changed.
> 
> when you checkout a file from git will it re-write/overwrite a file that 
> hasn't changed or will it realize there is no change and leave it as-is?

If the stat data is current it will leave it as-is.  You can force
the index to refresh with `git update-index --refresh` or by running
git status.
 
> does this answer change if there is a trigger on checkout (to change 
> permissions or otherwise manipulate the file)?

Only if the trigger does something in addition, like force overwrite
files.  But we don't have a checkout trigger.  So there's no trigger.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-10 13:40 Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits) Kyle Moffett
2006-12-10 14:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-10 15:30   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 18:10     ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-10 18:18       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 18:26       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 18:35         ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-11 10:39           ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-11 10:55             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-11 12:13             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-11 13:33               ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-11 15:07                 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-10 15:06 ` Santi Béjar
2006-12-10 17:46   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-10 18:10     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-10  1:39   ` David Lang
2007-01-10  2:30     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-01-10 18:34       ` David Lang
2007-01-12  0:55         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-11 10:50 ` Nikolai Weibull
2006-12-12  3:45 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-12 13:49   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 15:53     ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-12 22:49       ` Using git as a general backup mechanism (was Re: Using GIT to store /etc) Steven Grimm
2006-12-12 22:57         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-12 23:06           ` Steven Grimm
2006-12-13  0:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-12 23:15         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-12-12 23:23           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-12-12 23:43         ` Using git as a general backup mechanism Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 23:33           ` Steven Grimm
2006-12-15  0:33             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-13 18:10     ` Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits) Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-14  5:06       ` Chris Riddoch

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