From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git? Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:04:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <1138446030.9919.112.camel@evo.keithp.com> <7vzmlgt5zt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1138529385.9919.185.camel@evo.keithp.com> <43DCA495.9040301@gorzow.mm.pl> <20060130225107.GA3857@limbo.home> <20060131220148.GA19411@steel.home> <20060201013901.GA16832@mail.com> <7v64nzollt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060201045337.GC25753@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 01 06:14:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4AKO-00049w-2u for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:14:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030339AbWBAFOF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:14:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030356AbWBAFNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:13:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30617 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030339AbWBAFNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:13:08 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1154lDZ028615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:04:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1154kAO019472; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:04:47 -0800 To: Ray Lehtiniemi In-Reply-To: <20060201045337.GC25753@mail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.67__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote: > > what if the user wants to change the mode bits of an assume-unchanged > file with the twiddled permissions, but forgets to clear the flag > first? seems like that change is likely to get lost, especially if the > new mode is read-only.... Remember - git only cares about execute permissions. The write permissions are entirely ignored by git .. Linus