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david@lang.hm writes:

> my initial thoughts were to have git do all it's normal work and hook
> into git at the point where it's writing the file out (where today it
> chooses between writing the data to a file on disk, pipeing to stdout,
> or pipeing to a pager) by adding the option to pipe into a different
> program that would deal with the permission stuff. this program would
> only have to write the file and set the permissions, it wouldn't have
> to know anything about git other then where to find the permissions it
> needs to know.
>
> it sounds like you are suggesting that the hook be much earlier in the
> process,...

Well, you misread me or what I said was confusing or both.  I
was suggesting totally opposite.  Let git do all its normal
work, and then call your hook to munge the work tree in any way
you want.