On 02/23/2012 05:36 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100:
What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only
Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: permissions that git stores is the executable bit.
But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the fact that /etc/shadow should only be readable by root, for instance.
I don't think Git will change permissions on existing files in your working directory, but if you ever cloned your /etc repo onto another machine, the permissions would be screwed up.
Hi we're using http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ for that purpose greets, Dennis