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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: New repo quickly corrupted
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:53:45 +0100
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007, Andreas Ericsson a =E9crit :
> Christian Couder wrote:
> > Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007, Linus Torvalds a =E9crit :
> >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >>> Does "dos2unix" override file access bits?  Because the object st=
ore
> >>> 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 eve=
n if=20
it means a performance penalty.

Christian.