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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:39:33 +0100
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"Bradford Smith" <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, when I tried running 'git-config --global color.diff auto'
> today, it removed my symlink and replaced it with a real file.  This
> left me briefly a bit confused when the changes I had made didn't show
> up in ~/etc/gitconfig, but git-config reported them anyway.

Another problem I have with 'git config --global' is that it changes
the access permission bits of ~/.gitconfig. Since I use the same file
to store global StGIT configuration like SMTP username and password,
I'd like to make its access 0600 but it always goes back to 0644 after
'git config --global'.

Maybe fixing the symlink case would solve my problem as well.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin