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Re: New repo quickly corrupted

From
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Nov 17, 2007, 12:53 UTC
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<200711171353.45310.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007, Andreas Ericsson a écrit :
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> Christian Couder wrote:
> > Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >>> Does "dos2unix" override file access bits?  Because the object store
> >>> is always made read-only.
> >>
> >> Almost all programs like that will entirely ignor the fact that
> >> something is read-only.
> >
> > What if the .git/objects/ sudirectories were also read-only ?
>
> Then git wouldn't be able to write to it without chmod()'ing it each
> time.

Yes, but some (not manly enough) people might want the extra safety even if it means a performance penalty.

Christian.
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  1. Jason SewallNov 15, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2007
  3. Jason SewallNov 15, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2007
  5. Jason SewallNov 15, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreNov 15, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2007
  8. Christian CouderNov 16, 2007
  9. Andreas EricssonNov 16, 2007
  10. Christian CouderNov 17, 2007
  11. Robin RosenbergNov 17, 2007

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