From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?RGlyayBTw7xzc2Vyb3R0?= Subject: Re: file mode Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF61634.7020003@dirk.my1.cc> References: <20110613053814.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Witten , Peter Kleiweg , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 13 15:53:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QW7Zd-0007Ud-EN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:53:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753268Ab1FMNw4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:52:56 -0400 Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.98]:53167 "EHLO smtprelay05.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753258Ab1FMNwz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:52:55 -0400 Received: from [217.87.105.232] (helo=[192.168.2.100]) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1QW7ZU-0001WC-V9; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:52:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <20110613053814.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> X-Df-Sender: 757646 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 13.06.2011 07:38 schrieb Jeff King: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:12:42PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 18:57, Peter Kleiweg wrote: >>> I added a file that has file mode 600. When I do a check-out, >>> the file comes with mode 644. Is this supposed to happen? Then >>> how do I control what permissions files have? >> >> Do some googling. > > I really don't see the point of a response like this. It is one thing to > rudely point somebody to lmgtfy or an FAQ link. Then you're still being > rude, but at least you are pointing them in the right direction. But > this seems simply to make the list a less pleasant place _and_ to be > totally useless to the original poster. If you didn't want to give the > answer, wouldn't it have been better not to respond at all? > My sentiments exactly. Actually this list is one of the best I ever met or subscribed to. Even posts with the meaningless subject "Help needed" are answered. I've seen some of them. Few, though. Please, people, stick to what Peff suggests. I think for most newbees this list is the last effort AFTER googling, so googling won't help. Cheers, Dirk