Re: preserve permissions?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2012, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <m3wr71ts0i.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1330801530552-7340464.post@n2.nabble.com>

snk <shank76@gmail.com> writes:

> > Therefore git does not store ownership, and only basic permissions 
> > (only executable bit for ordinary files, and the symlink bit). 
> 
> Fine.  "git diff" reports wrong new permissions though: 755 instead of 764.

"Executable bit" is not "executable permissions"

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> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git reset --hard HEAD
> HEAD is now at 85d4483 test
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git config core.filemode
> true
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar  3 11:00 x
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> chmod u+x x
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git diff x
> diff --git a/x b/x
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x
> -rwxrw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar  3 11:00 x
> shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2>

Git stores only whether file is executable or not. To be more exact git uses only a few modes: one for submodule (commit), one for directory, one for symbolic link, one for ordinary executable file, and one for ordinary file (non-executable).

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Jakub Narebski