Re: file mode

From: Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xs4all.nl>
Date: Jun 13, 2011, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1106131624120.4221@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20110613053814.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schreef op de 13e dag van de zomermaand van het jaar 2011:

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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:12:42PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 18:57, Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > I added a file that has file mode 600. When I do a check-out,
> > > the file comes with mode 644. Is this supposed to happen? Then
> > > how do I control what permissions files have?

> We could add in a config option to respect file modes, but it has
> generally been seen as not worthwhile. It solves only a part of the
> general metadata problem, as it omits owner and group names or ids, as
> well as extended metadata like ACLs.

I see your point.

> If modes are important to you, the suggested fixes are one of:

Thanks. This is really helpfull.

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Peter Kleiweg
http://pkleiweg.home.xs4all.nl/