From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E6420229 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932275AbcHCOWZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:22:25 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:50393 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932213AbcHCOWI (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:22:08 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.142.100]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MRocn-1bfYw414gr-00Sy9O; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:21:29 +0200 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:21:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" cc: Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Making file permissions match In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:q/KllcXFR8QfoNZ4GSkyHv0ZqHXJFXJrSXidGhMr45ur5Y5o+KQ RhGTGiaS7N7gUmRDWOBm2k2sxbN6Q2JEaJhOpSEKvvduQeGi5hyYVI38me4f8eogvK3WvnU j1GM2gY+8CxzYMeaYb+4GEWPZ7Aruc7C9MTfJTJCSeDwIVLElrzAhdUQPbxcuxKbYj6OnCr oSpnhBMjCzFXebP+4hJHQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:7CfQFYkhD1U=:hWDY4WQRk/GRupLPwnxCvY blTvnYDYvI+tutxTQ3aYAgmxu47sNE5B1SHEku1hJhG6Ua5qgXF9V4KDGgK79KIhgy/v8Z2Us F8zFNmOL7mc/KWonPzJY38kTke1FPXHzEbsjvCAaozL8cp0Gc4O7canVU5PbjV+R/a8eAQO1n HCfomRR7JI6VI84FbzMF1dpe+TbVeSqzS0e+u9f27zZESFnv0fWs2s4QSmmd+Ev6/oNw2yOBd 1kkSU8s0MotviRrJNwKXCdwS6Q4PVaXqlhoEkXS3Y5CsINi5CaglSXzCLzmbdRLwbAlZtpwPM YJOg3gO7DekH93anQZen7QzTbGc3yZS63amR7fopebNSFeFu7X/9gtHoBuOyxXECj5TsMbTwX OF3oWK762Lt5MYKXToUmGd0aho1P2m0mp5Kv/qABtLhURTMWfNlzoKeWaSwOdTCYepxiI5Q52 xWO9r4RCU3R3ANI/UwP7VTLlphvyO3WgySFWXIqawmpXGITNt3UJIw8eKl3X3ODaPMg1oTDge jF6STBX7JWOGKeHuLwlFMKPqqWEnhfxATAOybq9oYJ/Nfh1WJVoC6xb5rO8owflwTwNxK/Wf4 tE7K+T//yzde1/xBh0qpVEHABLPTNyfDboFbznmBkwzDoy7ROEZuXVl1vIqreVF02SQqygZAF nhTHE9FX2IA6WlJ9nZz0PLbAfZQAlLkpjOKGFtI/GjSFZbsXKfxf0lgzNuAJCksAJ00+YPb+E rQcT84LelESfEmn+L7u+boN6I5XnGkKPMQkS/aVqKpK3RWG8plOQa0dFUyRUN6ALSDwW6B7K8 R9TN1tp Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Jon, On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file > permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree. I > have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file > permissions. > > So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I > unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions > don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this > noise from the file permissions. > > Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas > and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files > this is too much to do manually. Maybe setting core.filemode=false before committing? Ciao, Johannes