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Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b

From
Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Date
Aug 8, 2013, 23:00 UTC
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<20130808230058.GA10058@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:33:32PM -0700, Justin Collum wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> wrote:
> > he is neither the user dev or the group dev
> 
> I am both. There's only one user on this machine and he is me.

If you are running as 'dev', then I'm not sure how the permissions in the modified case would affect git's ability to work with the file. Seems like everything should be working fine... what is the error you get when things stop working?

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