From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Message-ID: <76718490902280852y2f2657ck7459c138205bb874@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e38bce640902280824x3ae41d95qab1f1a450235e096@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jan.  Was this choice made due to the conditional coding
> required to track the permission bits content between *NIX and
> non-*NIX platform(s)?

The short answer is: because Git was designed to track content. The
long answer is more complicated. Here's one of the more useful past
discussions:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91783

I'm sure you can find others by searching the git list for "metadata".

j.