opim

Ownership and permissions management tool for VCS-tracked files.

Description

VCS rarely have native provision for storing and recovering ownership and permissions info (OPI).

opim.pl helps to fill this gap.

First, you run opim.pl to collect OPI from filesystem and save it to file.

Then, when deploying files back to filesystem from repository, you run opim.pl again to read saved OPI from file and restore it to deployed files providing same ownership and permissions as were in the original filesystem.

Usage

Note: elevated privileges (e.g. using sudo) often required to traverse filesystem and change ownership or permissions.

Collect OPI from filesystem and save to file:

opim.pl [-{i|x} ignore_pattern] [-d directory] [-o] [-f file]

Restore OPI from file to target directory:

opim.pl -R [-n] [-f file] [-d directory]

Common options

-d directory to read OPI from or restore to.
Default is current directory.

-f file to store OPI to or read from.
Default is .opinfo

Options affecting OPI collection:

-i add pattern to ignore.
Can be used multiple times.
Default is to ignore .git.

-x replace default ignore patterns.
Can be used multiple times.