From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:42:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <7vy80vmy7c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060201045337.GC25753@mail.com>

Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com> writes:

> what if the user wants to change the mode bits of an assume-unchanged
> file with the twiddled permissions, but forgets to clear the flag
> first?  seems like that change is likely to get lost, especially if the
> new mode is read-only....

No problem, since we only record u+x bit and nothing else.  Most
importantly, we do not record any of the +w bits.