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From: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
To: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:55:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090228045531.14399ebf@perceptron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e38bce640902271717s46cf47f9i7c6bf5aac0d5f273@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> I checked in a slew of scripts, only to realize that the file
> permissions were too open (I want them to be chmod 700, not chmod
> 755).  Somehow I thought that git was tracking those permission bits,
> but simply using "chmod 700 <fileset>; git add <fileset>" did not add
> the change of file modes, well, at least git status output doesn't
> show it. Is there a way to do this?

git doesn't track permissions quite that closely; all it remembers is
whether the file should be executable or not.

-Jan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  1:17 How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes? Brent Goodrick
2009-02-28  1:25 ` Lars Noschinski
2009-02-28  3:55 ` Jan Krüger [this message]
2009-02-28 16:24   ` Brent Goodrick
2009-02-28 16:52     ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-28 17:34       ` Brent Goodrick
2009-02-28 18:34         ` Todd Zullinger
2009-02-28 22:43           ` Brent Goodrick

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