Re: [PATCH] Support precise tracking of file modes

> It seems that this is mostly an artificial imposition and it's annoying.
> Hey, I need to leave for an exam in 15 minutes and I have few urgent
> items in my Cogito TODO (sorry, Pavel!), but I couldn't resist.
>
> Taking "quick'n'dirty" to the extreme _and_ combining it with Linus'
> attitude to testing and documentation... ;-)
>
> diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
> index 29c9e81..0311066 100644
> --- a/cache.h
> +++ b/cache.h
> @@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ struct cache_entry {
>  #define ce_size(ce) cache_entry_size(ce_namelen(ce))
>  #define ce_stage(ce) ((CE_STAGEMASK & ntohs((ce)->ce_flags)) >> CE_STAGESHIFT)
>
> -#define ce_permissions(mode) (((mode) & 0100) ? 0755 : 0644)
> +extern int track_filemode;
> +
> +#define ce_permissions(mode) (track_filemode ? (mode) : (((mode) & 0100) ? 0755 : 0644))
>  static inline unsigned int create_ce_mode(unsigned int mode)
>  {
>         if (S_ISLNK(mode))
> diff --git a/checkout-index.c b/checkout-index.c
> index 53dd8cb..b073baa 100644
> --- a/checkout-index.c
> +++ b/checkout-index.c
> @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>         int newfd = -1;
>         int all = 0;
>
> +       git_config(git_default_config);
> +
>         prefix = setup_git_directory();
>         prefix_length = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
>
> diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
> index 8355224..a92ee0f 100644
> --- a/config.c
> +++ b/config.c
> @@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var,
>                 return 0;
>         }
>
> +       if (!strcmp(var, "core.trackallfilemodes")) {
> +               track_filemode = git_config_bool(var, value);
> +               return 0;
> +       }
> +
>         if (!strcmp(var, "core.symrefsonly")) {
>                 only_use_symrefs = git_config_bool(var, value);
>                 return 0;
> diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
> index 410b758..493f2b9 100644
> --- a/entry.c
> +++ b/entry.c
> @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entr
>                         return error("git-checkout-index: unable to create file %s (%s)",
>                                 path, strerror(errno));
>                 }
> +               if (track_filemode) {
> +                       if (fchmod(fd, ntohl(ce->ce_mode)) < 0)
> +                               return error("git-checkout-index: unable to chmod file %s (%s)",
> +                                       path, strerror(errno));
> +               }
>                 wrote = write(fd, new, size);
>                 close(fd);
>                 free(new);
> diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
> index 0596fc6..53248ec 100644
> --- a/environment.c
> +++ b/environment.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  char git_default_email[MAX_GITNAME];
>  char git_default_name[MAX_GITNAME];
>  int trust_executable_bit = 1;
> +int track_filemode = 0;
>  int only_use_symrefs = 0;
>  int repository_format_version = 0;
>  char git_commit_encoding[MAX_ENCODING_LENGTH] = "utf-8";
> diff --git a/fsck-objects.c b/fsck-objects.c
> index 90e638e..719add2 100644
> --- a/fsck-objects.c
> +++ b/fsck-objects.c
> @@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ static int fsck_tree(struct tree *item)
>                         if (!check_strict)
>                                 break;
>                 default:
> -                       has_bad_modes = 1;
> +                       if (!track_filemode || (entry->mode & ~(S_IFREG|0777)))
> +                               has_bad_modes = 1;
>                 }
>
>                 if (last) {
> diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
> index c5474d4..624d2c3 100644
> --- a/read-cache.c
> +++ b/read-cache.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct ca
>                  * "mode changes"
>                  */
>                 if (trust_executable_bit &&
> -                   (0100 & (ntohl(ce->ce_mode) ^ st->st_mode)))
> +                   ((track_filemode ? 0777 : 0100) & (ntohl(ce->ce_mode) ^ st->st_mode)))
>                         changed |= MODE_CHANGED;
>                 break;
>         case S_IFLNK:
>
>
> --
>                                 Petr "Pasky" Baudis