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>>>>> "HPA" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

HPA> Owner and permissions are part of the tree object, and apply to all
HPA> file types.

Huh?  I am confused...  Do you mean tree object should be
changed to record these?  That would make the existing in-cache
merging of files, which GIT was built for, quite interesting...

Well, doing device nodes _is_ a tangent, so let's drop this
discussion.