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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: New repo quickly corrupted
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:53:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711171353.45310.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473D4827.1060109@op5.se>

Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007, Andreas Ericsson a écrit :
> Christian Couder wrote:
> > Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >>> Does "dos2unix" override file access bits?  Because the object store
> >>> is always made read-only.
> >>
> >> Almost all programs like that will entirely ignor the fact that
> >> something is read-only.
> >
> > What if the .git/objects/ sudirectories were also read-only ?
>
> Then git wouldn't be able to write to it without chmod()'ing it each
> time.

Yes, but some (not manly enough) people might want the extra safety even if 
it means a performance penalty.

Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-17 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15 21:50 New repo quickly corrupted Jason Sewall
2007-11-15 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-15 21:59   ` Jason Sewall
2007-11-15 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-15 22:06   ` Jason Sewall
2007-11-15 22:12   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-15 22:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-16  5:45       ` Christian Couder
2007-11-16  7:35         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-17 12:53           ` Christian Couder [this message]
2007-11-17 14:13             ` Robin Rosenberg

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