From: Justin Collum <jcollum@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:33:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b
Message-ID: <CACO0oR7M90iyDCo-mwoHn21jKRGuMsRWEeWkFXC-MCSUBscC9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130808221807.GA8518@gmail.com>

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.