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Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Aug 9, 2013, 12:40 UTC
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Justin Collum <jcollum@gmail.com> writes:
>      sudo chmod 644 ./.git/index

That doesn't make sense. If you are the owner of the file, why do you need sudo???

Andreas.
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