From: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:24:43 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Message-ID: <e38bce640902280824x3ae41d95qab1f1a450235e096@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090228045531.14399ebf@perceptron>

> git doesn't track permissions quite that closely; all it remembers is
> whether the file should be executable or not.

Thanks Jan.  Was this choice made due to the conditional coding
required to track the permission bits content between *NIX and
non-*NIX platform(s)?

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