From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:40:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature: support for file permissions
Message-ID: <xmqqmwlyl2d5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGxGTk5eOGoUjrweZ9gLwBE6ev7oCZcu-aWWK2ydtpLkWgx8ew@mail.gmail.com>

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.