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Re: New repo quickly corrupted

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 16, 2007, 07:35 UTC
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Christian Couder wrote:
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> 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.
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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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