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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xs4all.nl>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file mode
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:18:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimgby8-aBmXiZ72vtxoLO6Tr7zi2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikZZsuQ9PoNvMOoRCg=kAnwQOvOSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:58, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:

> Firstly: My response shows that there are abundant answers, which is a
> nicer answer to receive than no answer at all.

I think having answers like yours is much worse than having no answer
at all. I happen to know how git handles the storage of file
permissions, but like Jeff I couldn't find anything useful either with
some quick searching around.

But it's very useful that the list have a friendly atmosphere where
people of different technical capability, or those that haven't found
the right terms to feed into a search engine can ask questions without
getting back an answer which at least to me seems very snarky.

There's a tendency in a lot of mailing list to accumulate a
self-congratulating air from regulars "in the know" where people
asking questions aren't made to feel welcome. Let's try to not become
one of those lists.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-12 18:57 file mode Peter Kleiweg
2011-06-12 19:12 ` Michael Witten
2011-06-13  5:38   ` Jeff King
2011-06-13 13:52     ` Dirk Süsserott
2011-06-13 13:58       ` Michael Witten
2011-06-13 13:58     ` Michael Witten
2011-06-13 21:18       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2011-06-14  5:51         ` Michael Witten
2011-06-13 14:25     ` Peter Kleiweg

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