Re: confused about preserved permissions
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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- Aug 23, 2007, 06:12 UTC
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martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
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> also sprach Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [2007.08.23.0009 +0200]: >> We deliberately chose not to use that space, and this default is >> very unlikely to change. > > The downsides included change in SHA hash on mode change, as far as > I can remember. Anything else?
The modes are recorded in patches and push/pull, so if you have several people working with different permissions/umasks, you get wagonloads of unnecessary patches and get your local permissions messed up by other contributors.
For colloborative work, you _really_ don't want to have _personal_ preferences distributed.
Any patch offering to optionally track permissions must make very sure that it retains the possibility to have permissions in the directory policed to the values that are actually a property of the source files rather than the personal work environment.
-- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum