From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:37:16 GMT Subject: Re: Git files data formats documentation Message-ID: <7vejvud7ib.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <44D5141A.2070004@gmail.com> A Large Angry SCM writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >>> >>> # Octal encoding, without prefix, of the file system object >>> # type and permission bits. The bit layout is according to the >>> # POSIX standard, with only regular files, directories, and >>> # symbolic links permitted. The actual permission bits are >>> # all zero except for regular files. The only permission bit >>> # of any consequence to Git is the owner executable bit. By >>> # default, the permission bits for files will be either 0644 >>> # or 0755, depending on the owner executable bit. >>> ; >> >> It's not really "by default" -- more like "by definition", since >> there is no way for the program to use something different. We >> used to record non-canonical modes in ancient versions of git, >> but I think fsck-objects would warn on objects created that way. >> > > See git-mktree. That's a bad example -- the tool being too loose.