{"thread":{"id":"35195","subject":"Feature: support for file permissions","startedAt":"2013-10-24T21:32:36Z","lastAt":"2013-10-24T22:40:06Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Renich Bon Ciric","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"229442","messageId":"CAGxGTk5eOGoUjrweZ9gLwBE6ev7oCZcu-aWWK2ydtpLkWgx8ew@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"35195","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Feature: support for file permissions","fromName":"Renich Bon Ciric","fromEmail":"renich@woralelandia.com","sentAt":"2013-10-24T21:32:36Z","receivedAt":"2013-10-24T21:32:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"renich@woralelandia.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI think file permissions are really important for source code as well.\n\nFor example, in web development, you want configuration files to be\nread only; specially if you're deploying with git.\n\nAlso, you would want some executable file to not be writable ; but\nexecutable by world.\n\nPermission support would become really handy when using GIT_WORK_TREE\non a bare repo.\n\nPlease, consider supporting them.\n\n-- \nIt's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for;\nit's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned!\nRenich Bon Ciric\n\nhttp://www.woralelandia.com/\nhttp://www.introbella.com/\n"},{"id":"229449","messageId":"xmqqmwlyl2d5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com","threadId":"35195","inReplyTo":"CAGxGTk5eOGoUjrweZ9gLwBE6ev7oCZcu-aWWK2ydtpLkWgx8ew@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Feature: support for file permissions","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2013-10-24T22:40:06Z","receivedAt":"2013-10-24T22:40:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Renich Bon Ciric <renich@woralelandia.com> writes:\n\n> I think file permissions are really important for source code as well.\n>\n> For example, in web development, you want configuration files to be\n> read only; specially if you're deploying with git.\n\nThat is not _source code_; you are talking about deployed set of\nfiles, and as you said, Git is about source code and is not a tool\nfor deployment.\n\n> Please, consider supporting them.\n\nSee the ancient discussion around this:\n\n    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/375/focus=435\n\nA short answer is that it is not likely to happen.\n"}]}