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From: Computer Druid <computerdruid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git changes permissions on directories when deleting files.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:19:58 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Chad Joan <chadjoan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I'm experiencing is this:
>
> $ cd ~/project
> $ ls -dl somedir
> drwxrwx--- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir
> $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt
> $ git add somedir/somefile.txt
> $ git rm -f somedir/somefile.txt
> rm 'somedir/somefile.txt'
> $ ls -dl somedir
> drw------- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir
> $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt
> bash: somedir/somefile.txt: Permission denied

After you remove the file, is "somedir" empty?

Git doesn't track empty directories, and therefore git rm on the last
file in a directory deletes it:

% git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cdruid/testrepo/.git/
% mkdir dir
% ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 cdruid cdruid 4096 Feb 28 21:14 dir
% touch dir/test.txt
% git add dir/test.txt
% git rm -f dir/test.txt
rm 'dir/test.txt'
% ls -l
total 0

My guess is git is somehow failing to delete the directory, thus
causing your changed permissions issue.

-Dan Johnson