From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:21:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [cosmetic bug?] needlessly(?) executable files
Message-ID: <1424679663.30155.30.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3thwzur.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On zo, 2015-02-22 at 10:44 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> 
> > Just a question about files like:
> > .git/config
> > .git/hooks/*.sample
> >
> > Is there any reason that these are created executable? Especially
> the
> > config file?
> 
> In a new repository I just did "git init", I see this:
> 
>     $ rm -fr stupid
>     $ umask 0027
>     $ git init stupid
>     $ ls -l stupid/.git/config | sed -e 's/ .*//'
>     -rw-r-----
> 
> So no, config is not created executable.

It used to be for a brief period in history, between daa22c6f8d (2.1.0)
and 1f32ecf (2.2.2).

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
http://www.kaarsemaker.net