Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: > Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 > 2012: > > What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for > > /etc. > What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only > 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.
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