git-store-meta is a light-weight tool for file metadata storing and applying for Git. Features: - Light dependency, cross-platform consistent behavior, desirable performance. - Data files are in plain text format and can be easily revisioned, diffed, or manually modified as needed. - Supported metadata: mtime, atime, mode, user, uid, group, gid, acl. - Can store the metadata of git-revisioned files into a data file. - Can apply the metadata stored in the data file to the working copy. - Can update the metadata for changed files quickly. - Can easily pick which metadata fields to store, update, or apply. - Can determine whether to store, update, or apply directory metadata. Note: The binary is installed under the name "git-store-meta". Use it instead of "git-store-meta.pl" when reading online docs or in Git hooks. The `--install` switch already knows to use "git-store-meta" and will create correct hooks without any further action required.