From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:55:31 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Message-ID: <20090228045531.14399ebf@perceptron>
In-Reply-To: <e38bce640902271717s46cf47f9i7c6bf5aac0d5f273@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> I checked in a slew of scripts, only to realize that the file
> permissions were too open (I want them to be chmod 700, not chmod
> 755).  Somehow I thought that git was tracking those permission bits,
> but simply using "chmod 700 <fileset>; git add <fileset>" did not add
> the change of file modes, well, at least git status output doesn't
> show it. Is there a way to do this?

git doesn't track permissions quite that closely; all it remembers is
whether the file should be executable or not.

-Jan