Re: confused about preserved permissions

From: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Aug 22, 2007, 12:18 UTC
Message-ID: <6031FB22-648E-47DE-92EE-2E7255322C27@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070820164411.GA15637@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:44 PM, martin f krafft wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a bit confused about how git stores and restores permissions.

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> And is there a way to tell git not to mess with the permissions in
> the worktree when switching branches? I am not sure what's causing
> it since the inode of files does not seem to change, so git
> apparently explicitly fchmod()'s files.
>
> I'd be grateful for any documentation to read in addition to the
> code. I saw core.filemode, but that's only about the x bit, it
> seems.
>
> Thanks,

Hi, this thread drifted away and although the discussion is interesting, the original question hasn't been answered so far and I am in a situation where I'd like to know the answer (because my working tree needs to be group-readable for a given project and my umask 066 keeps annoying me although I don't want to change it).

Someone on IRC pointed me to http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/ ContentLimitations which says:

"By design, git cannot track other aspects of the filesystem, including:
   * File modes (except for the "executable" bit, and being symbolic  
link)"

That's weird since the file mode is saved in the tree, isn't there a way to ask Git to restore this file mode?

Cheers,

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory