01vcs/git-meta

Wanna git preserve your file dates? git-meta stores all files' metadata into .gitmeta! On every commit!

git-meta's Issues

Faster: only check files that are in the commit

"awk: line 2: function gensub never defined" and "xargs: /usr/bin/find: terminated by signal 13" errors

Install system-wide

• Install on /usr/bin and /usr/lib
• Cmd: git-meta init
• Cmd: git-meta -h
• Cmd: git-meta -v
• Cmd: git-meta -u (to update, use Web3Updater - also patch repos)

Individual git repository for the metadata, inside .git/meta (optional?)

Reference: https://gist.github.com/andris9/1978266#gistcomment-3930475

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45416049/how-to-make-a-git-pre-commit-hook-that-checks-the-commit-message (after commit and .gitmeta is done, get commit msg)
https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/git/how-to-retrieve-hash-for-commits-in-git.html (get commit hash, too. Then commit in .git/meta)

Help: Beginner, Windows keep date modified and date created

Hello,

I don't know this is the right place to ask but i got the following situation:

I use git-bash.exe on my windows. I have a gitlab self-hosted server. I have a repository and did the following things:

1. Git clone
2. Modified files
3. Copied init.sh and git-meta and executed the init.sh
4. git add . git commit -m "message" and saw that it uses git-meta made a .gitmeta and lastly did git push
   Everything worked so far...

But when someone else made a git clone with git-bash.exe they have no .git/hooks/git-meta and also the files were not the same with date modfied and date created. I think I need to do something with the git-meta to stay in .git/hooks but i don't how i can manage it.

What I have in mind is when someone commits it automatically is set in the .gitmeta and when someone is git cloning or git pulling it automatic do a git-meta --apply.

Is this possible and how can i do this in combination with your git-meta script?

locks up forever on init.sh on RHEL linux releases / wrong instructions / bad location / bad name

my "ps" says it's locked up at "cat".

dodgy bash script probably?

Also - instructions seem wrong?

Copy git-meta.sh and init.sh into your repo

seems like a less-than-ideal idea to stick the script in the repo itself? Shouldn't this be in /usr/local/bin/ ?

/usr/bin is the wrong place to put local scripts

init.sh is a bad name. should be git-meta-init.sh or something more sensible.

this is not portable (centos/redhat/etc):
sudo apt install

it's also a bad idea to install stuff without asking or checking if it's already there anyhow. Don't do that - just tell people it's a dependency, and stop if it's missing.

The Merge + The Upgrade

@Bananaman I implore you a PR fusing git-meta's current code with yours 🙏

I need my git-meta back working (and it isn't anymore - issue #9)

`install.sh` fails when using Darwin/BSD `cp`

The install script either needs to be rewritten to account for BSD cp, or to target GNU cp if installed. It appears the git-meta.sh script does this.

"Done in X seconds/minutes" - count time of script running

Support "git pull" post hook alongside "git commit" pre hook

I haven't looked deeply into git pre-hooks, but I imagine the ppl using this could provide instructions (or even upgrade the init.sh with an option) to make the git-meta commands run whenever an commit is done (before) and after a pull is done as to provide a seamless experience.

git: also include revisions

These revisions will be applied to an individual git repo. Then, the current one, will be merged into this repo as newer commits.

https://gist.github.com/Cojad/9205547/revisions