Ownership and permissions management tool for VCS-tracked files.
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.
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]
-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
-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.