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

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Justin Collum <jcollum@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 9, 2013, 17:00 UTC
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> That doesn't make sense.  If you are the owner of the file, why do you need sudo???

I've just never seen a chmod command without sudo. I assumed it was needed. Is this relevant to the bug that I'm seeing?

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
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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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