From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:58:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b
Message-ID: <vpqa9krja1f.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <8761vf3uml.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Justin Collum <jcollum@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>      sudo chmod 644 ./.git/index
>
> That doesn't make sense.  If you are the owner of the file, why do you
> need sudo???

I suspect that some over-use of "sudo" resulted in files or directories
belonging to root. What does

  find . -user 0

say?

(As a developer, you should never need sudo. You should only need in as
an administrator of your machine.)

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/