From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andreas Gal <gal@uci.edu>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:56:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42780185.7010204@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr7got2tz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Introducing "dev" type, as Andreas suggests, is wrong. This
> this should be done in the same way as you suggested for the
> symlink case. Store a blob object with those chrdev or blkdev
> modes whose contents are of form:
>
> major=14
> minor=4
> owner=root
> group=audio
> perm=0660
>
> This would impact the diff side least, and for the cache side it
> does not matter in storing and merging. checkout-cache still
> needs to know about this.
>
Owner and permissions are part of the tree object, and apply to all file
types. The only thing equivalent to file data is the major,minor;
storing it as a comma-separated decimal ASCII string is probably the
cleanest, i.e. for your exaple:
14,4
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-03 18:33 git and symlinks as tracked content Kay Sievers
2005-05-03 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 19:10 ` Morten Welinder
2005-05-03 19:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03 19:57 ` Andreas Gal
2005-05-03 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 20:09 ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-03 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-03 21:51 ` Andreas Gal
2005-05-03 22:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-04 0:39 ` Sym-links, b/c-special files, pipes, ... Scope Creep Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-03 22:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-05-03 23:16 ` git and symlinks as tracked content Junio C Hamano
2005-05-03 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-04 15:48 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-05-04 23:03 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-05 6:09 ` Alan Chandler
2005-05-05 9:51 ` read-only git repositories David Lang
2005-05-05 12:39 ` Sean
2005-05-06 3:01 ` read-only git repositories (ancient history) David A. Wheeler
2005-05-05 21:23 ` git and symlinks as tracked content Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-03 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-04 22:35 ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-04 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-05 1:20 ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-05 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-05 12:38 ` Kay Sievers
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