From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:39:18 GMT
Subject: Re: filemode=false somewhat broken
Message-ID: <7vodqzp0mh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17764.44236.473000.729015@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>

Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de> writes:

> Commit fd28b34afd9bbd58297a25edced3f504c9a5487a tried to ignore the
> executable bit if filemode=false, but instead forced all files to be
> regular with 644 permission bits nuking symlink support.

Thanks for noticing.  Yes, that change is _seriously_ broken.  I
should really raise the bar for patch acceptance.