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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-clone file permissions and cpio
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:41:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480C7D82.9000602@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSO.1.10.0804210911170.21918@zrgural.vwaro.pbz>


> I got some kind of working behaviour with the diff below, which stops 
> cpio 'fixing' the file permissions (only on the directories). But it 
> seems the underlying cause is cpio trying to copy file permissions which 
> it would be better off not doing in this case (and which there isn't a 
> flag to disable).

I don't think you want to have the setgid bit on files, only on 
directories, so your patch seems okay to me.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  8:45 git-clone file permissions and cpio Mark Hills
2008-04-21 11:41 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2008-05-04 11:32   ` Mark Hills

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