From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:04:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
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:
> 
> 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