From: Justin Collum <jcollum@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:00:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b
Message-ID: <CACO0oR4_+=6iimO4U0rt2JuhfxrX1CkjWR5iMkt=+EuxscmBMg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8761vf3uml.fsf@igel.home>

> 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:
> 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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