From: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:34:15 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Message-ID: <e38bce640902280934u3d9da650ke64865d7149b3c66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902280852y2f2657ck7459c138205bb874@mail.gmail.com>

> The short answer is: because Git was designed to track content. The
> long answer is more complicated. Here's one of the more useful past
> discussions:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91783
>
> I'm sure you can find others by searching the git list for "metadata".

I read that thread you showed above. Sounds like a big squirmy
can-o-worms, and I see that thread died on the vine because of it. :)

All I want to do in my case is just chmod 700 a bunch of scripts after
they are checked out or updated.  I'll need to re-read the git-hooks
man page more closely.

Thanks for your help!
bg