Tracking filesystem entries as first-class VCS citizens

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 13:33 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> >
> >> I meant precisely that if you don't agree that a VCS's mission is
> >> limited to managing content, but rather should include more of the
> >> state of the system, you won't think that git/hg do a good enough job
> >> of tracking renames.
> > […]
> >
> > Or any of the other filesystem attributes that are useful to track in a
> > VCS.
> 
> Git does track permission bit and directory Vs plain file Vs symlinks
> too.
Git only tracks the executable bit and the file type, it doesn't allow
custom unix modes. (anymore).

Cheers,

Jelmer
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