Re: file mode

[Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:18:58 +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:38, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:12:42PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 18:57, Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xs4all.nl> 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?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Firstly: My response shows that there are abundant answers, which is a
>> nicer answer to receive than no answer at all.
>>
>> Secondly: I didn't see the point in RE-WRITING all that has been said
>> on the subject before, and I couldn't be sure that somebody else would
>> be willing to do the same too (I figured it was a good idea to supply
>> at least one response).
>> 
>> Thirdly: Seriously, at least do some googling first.
>
> 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.

Peter Kleiwig, I would be most grateful if you could find it in your heart
to forgive a poor, misguided, mutton-faced, thistle-bottomed, pig-swiving,
ale-soused dungball such as myself.

This wretch, I, humbly prostrates himself before the feet of the offended
in earnest compunction over his unconscionably uncouth utterances; may I
next time guard my tongue or, if finding myself unequal to that task, be
so thoughtful as to bite it off, preserve it for at least a year and a day
in a barrel of briny liquid most foul, and then—on the coldest day of
winter—dispense with it as fodder for the hunger pangs of feral cats!