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Re: Feature: support for file permissions

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2013, 22:40 UTC
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Renich Bon Ciric <renich@woralelandia.com> writes:
> I think file permissions are really important for source code as well.
>
> For example, in web development, you want configuration files to be
> read only; specially if you're deploying with git.

That is not _source code_; you are talking about deployed set of files, and as you said, Git is about source code and is not a tool for deployment.

> Please, consider supporting them.
See the ancient discussion around this:
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/375/focus=435
A short answer is that it is not likely to happen.
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