Re: Making file permissions match

From: jonsmirl@gmail.com <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2016, 14:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKON4OzzKWXXbnTW+NEhSNs9WPWq=AS970YeLMRx95ObYhGaxA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160803140730.GA2390@atze2.lan>

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file
>> permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree.  I
>> have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file
>> permissions.
>>
>> So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I
>> unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions
>> don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this
>> noise from the file permissions.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas
>> and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files
>> this is too much to do manually.
>
> (I'm not sure if I understand "match" correctly)
>
> You can ignore changes in the executable permissions:
> git config core.filemode false
>
> Please let us know if it works

Thanks, that might work. It will take a few hours to check since the repo is huge.

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Jon Smirl
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