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Feature: support for file permissions

Subject: Feature: support for file permissions

## tl;dr

2 messages between Oct 24, 2013 and Oct 24, 2013.

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Renich Bon Ciric· Oct 24, 2013, 21:32 UTC · lore

Hello,

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.

Also, you would want some executable file to not be writable ; but executable by world.

Permission support would become really handy when using GIT_WORK_TREE on a bare repo.

Please, consider supporting them.

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Junio C Hamano· Oct 24, 2013, 22:40 UTC · re: Renich Bon Ciric · lore

Re: Feature: support for file permissions

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.