From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Kyle Moffett" <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:50:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860612110250g73708f7al88c1b50acb2c0dcd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787BE48C-1808-4A33-A368-5E8A3F00C787@mac.com>
On 12/10/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
> 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 keep the files I want to track in a separate folder that I track
with Git and use a Makefile for updating /etc. I basically have a
rule for checking for differences between the tracked folder and /etc
and a rule for installing changed files (with the correct
permissions). It works, but it does require some "Makefile magic" to
work right (or the way /I/ want it anyway).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 10:51 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
2007-01-10 18:34 ` David Lang
2007-01-12 0:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-11 10:50 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
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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