From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: Filemode is a nuisance Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 20:20:35 -0700 Message-ID: <86k4e5al4s.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <5B76586FBEB246BDA2F097E21C78E881@rowanlewis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Rowan Lewis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 05 05:20:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHp7a-0002Fe-7e for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 05:20:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752848Ab1EEDUj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 23:20:39 -0400 Received: from lax-gw02.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.102]:46595 "EHLO mail.mroute.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752755Ab1EEDUj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 23:20:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E571DEE0A; Thu, 5 May 2011 03:20:36 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377F11DEDD1; Thu, 5 May 2011 03:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 28E7E5869; Wed, 4 May 2011 20:20:36 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.6.3; tzolkin = 5 Akbal; haab = 11 Uo In-Reply-To: <5B76586FBEB246BDA2F097E21C78E881@rowanlewis.com> (Rowan Lewis's message of "Thu, 5 May 2011 09:38:03 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Rowan" == Rowan Lewis writes: Rowan> However, one problem still remains. Our projects are often cloned Rowan> onto a large variety of computer environments, from Linux servers Rowan> to OSX and Windows desktops. And then installed, how? git-clone is *not* meant as a deployment tool. It is meant to create work dirs for editing and committing. If you want to deploy, write the proper deploy tool that sets the permissions. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion