git-pasky file mode handling

git-pasky file mode handling

[Russell King]

Hi,

It seems that there's something weird going on with the file mode
handling.  Firstly, some files in the git-pasky repository have mode
0664 while others have 0644.

Having pulled from git-pasky a number of times, with Petr's being the
"tracked" repository, I now find that when I do an update-cache --refresh,
it complains that the files need updating, despite show-diff showing no
differences.  Investigating, this appears to be because the file modes
are wrong for a number of the files.  All my files do not have group
write.

I notice in the changelog what appears to be a dependence on the umask.
If this is so, please note that git appears to track the file modes,
and any dependence upon the umask is likely to screw with this tracking.

-- 
Russell King

Re: git-pasky file mode handling

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:45:59AM CEST, I got a letter
where Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> told me that...
> Hi,

Hello,

> It seems that there's something weird going on with the file mode
> handling.  Firstly, some files in the git-pasky repository have mode
> 0664 while others have 0644.
> 
> Having pulled from git-pasky a number of times, with Petr's being the
> "tracked" repository, I now find that when I do an update-cache --refresh,
> it complains that the files need updating, despite show-diff showing no
> differences.  Investigating, this appears to be because the file modes
> are wrong for a number of the files.  All my files do not have group
> write.

this is was a problem with git apply, which did not apply mode changes
correctly until recently. If you have no local changes,

	checkout-cache -f -a

should fix this. Hopefully.

> I notice in the changelog what appears to be a dependence on the umask.
> If this is so, please note that git appears to track the file modes,
> and any dependence upon the umask is likely to screw with this tracking.

I personally don't think I like the mode tracking at all. Some people
(Linus?) may want to have group +w. Other people (me) have their default
group as 'users', and I definitively don't want everyone to be able to
write to the files. :-)

I think we should track only whether the file is executable or not.
Linus?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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