From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:35:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820183511.GA5544@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070820164411.GA15637@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
martin f krafft, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 18:44:11 +0200:
> Hello,
>
> I am a bit confused about how git stores and restores permissions.
> I went to the web but found little other than this post from Linus
> in 2005:
>
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0870.html
>
> where he basically says that git will *not* save permissions and
> that it also does not save symlinks. I thus discarded the
> information as being outdated. ...
Git tracks just the x-bit. Everything else is controlled by your
umask.
Symlinks are supported since long time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-20 16:44 confused about preserved permissions martin f krafft
2007-08-20 16:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-08-20 17:38 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-20 17:41 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 17:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 18:13 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 18:44 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86zm0mgicy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-08-20 18:48 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 19:43 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 19:50 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:07 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-20 20:10 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:27 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 20:44 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 20:08 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-20 20:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-20 20:50 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-20 21:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-21 1:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-21 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-21 5:34 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-21 6:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-21 18:01 ` René Scharfe
2007-08-21 18:01 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update tar.umask default René Scharfe
2007-08-21 21:15 ` Mike Hommey
2007-08-22 21:03 ` René Scharfe
2007-08-20 18:35 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-08-22 12:18 ` confused about preserved permissions Benoit SIGOURE
2007-08-22 12:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-08-22 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 6:00 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-23 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-23 6:23 ` martin f krafft
2007-08-23 7:48 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-08-23 7:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 8:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-03 18:59 ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-23 7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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