How do you deal with file ownership in git?

Question

I\'m working on an embedded Linux project. Our build process makes an image that gets flashed to a device. Many of our files require root ownership for the system to work co

Answer 1

To build on Karmastan's answer, the magic words here are "build script".

Files in git don't have to look like the deployment versions. You don't deploy .c files -- you compile them first. Likewise some config files can go through a build process before being deployed/installed, also.