Re: Making file permissions match
- From
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
- Date
- Aug 3, 2016, 14:07 UTC
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- <20160803140730.GA2390@atze2.lan>
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- <CAKON4OyiG=ddx77Bn3h-YAh-3BYGd2rXPb9smwaooWxfBmtDKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:
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> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file > permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree. I > have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file > permissions. > > So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I > unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions > don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this > noise from the file permissions. > > Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas > and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files > this is too much to do manually.
(I'm not sure if I understand "match" correctly)
You can ignore changes in the executable permissions: git config core.filemode false
Please let us know if it works