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Re: preserve permissions?

From
Ssnk <shank76@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2012, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID
<1330801530552-7340464.post@n2.nabble.com>
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<m3fx27g6i8.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
> Therefore git does not store ownership, and only basic permissions 
> (only executable bit for ordinary files, and the symlink bit). 
Fine.  "git diff" reports wrong new permissions though: 755 instead of 764.

shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git reset --hard HEAD HEAD is now at 85d4483 test shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git config core.filemode true shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x -rw-rw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar 3 11:00 x shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> chmod u+x x shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git diff x

diff --git a/x b/x
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x
-rwxrw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar  3 11:00 x
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> 


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