From: Andreas Schwab Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:40:18 GMT Subject: Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b Message-ID: <8761vf3uml.fsf@igel.home> In-Reply-To: Justin Collum 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."