Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2006, 05:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601312104190.7301@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060201045337.GC25753@mail.com>

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:

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> 
> what if the user wants to change the mode bits of an assume-unchanged
> file with the twiddled permissions, but forgets to clear the flag
> first?  seems like that change is likely to get lost, especially if the
> new mode is read-only....

Remember - git only cares about execute permissions. The write permissions are entirely ignored by git ..

		Linus

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