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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 8, 2013, 22:33 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> wrote:
> he is neither the user dev or the group dev
I am both. There's only one user on this machine and he is me.
> he is regularly running  chmod -R 777

Yes, true. I have a program that I use to edit some of these files (not the git files) that likes to screw up permissions. It's a long story. Anyway, I've been running that chmod regularly since well before this git issue started. I'll start using 644 for the chmod and see if that helps.

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