Re: [Request] Git reset should be able to ignore file permissions

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 18, 2013, 13:34 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqsj0fr19j.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CACuz9s31OUWNxTqCmj7ukAo7=TpXK7zBv5kTFZ5obpXKOju9ng@mail.gmail.com>

Alexander Nestorov <alexandernst@gmail.com> writes:

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> echo "test" > myfile
> chmod 777 myfile
> git add myfile && git commit -m "Test" && git push
> chmod 775 myfile
> git reset --hard origin/master

This doesn't tell what the permissions are in origin/master.

If the last line was "git reset --hard HEAD", then it wouldn't touch myfile (it's executable in the worktree and in HEAD, so Git doesn't need to change it). Neither the x bit, nor the ctime or mtime.

If you reset the file to a point where it was not executable, then Git changes its executable bit, and I don't see why it would do otherwise: Git tracks the executable bit, so when you say "reset the file to how it was in this revision", this includes the content and executability.

Reading your message, I don't understand why you need to be able to ignore the x bit.

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Matthieu Moy
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