From: Andrew Ruder Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:18:07 GMT Subject: Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b Message-ID: <20130808221807.GA8518@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52040F27.4050908@googlemail.com> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:35:35PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote: > On 08/08/2013 10:27 PM, Justin Collum wrote: > > [...] > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dev dev 17K Aug 8 13:12 index > > [...] > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 dev dev 17K Aug 8 13:16 index # <--------------- > > The permissions are set to reading for all and writing for you(r user) > and your group. This should be no problem with standard git commands. > Before you had the index file executable, why would you need that? I'm about 90% sure the issue he's having is that the write bit for other/world goes away and he is neither the user dev or the group dev and the reason for all the executable bits is that he is regularly running chmod -R 777 . Justin, if this is true, I will tell you that git respects your umask but I just can't bring myself to really suggest someone type umask 000 ever. :( - Andy