Re: [RFC/PATCH] config: honor file permission bits

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I don't personally make that file read-only, so it doesn't affect me at
> all; instead, I just overwrite it with my personal configuration every
> time I deploy my dotfiles.

> I don't personally make that file read-only, so it doesn't affect me at
> all; instead, I just overwrite it with my personal configuration every
> time I deploy my dotfiles.

Well, I deploy my dotfiles from the freshly built one (the sources
of dotfiles are kept elsewhere under version control), too, but when
"installing", I make them read-only, just like all other "installed"
files like the contents of my ~/bin/ directory.  My personal
makefiles have "dry-run" support to tell me what the changes are in
the version I am about to install in 'patch' form, and that is how I
noticed that "git config" allowed to make such a mistake, even though
the file is read-only, to some failed experiment I made earlier.