Subject: Re: preserve permissions?

From: snk <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:05:30 -0800 (PST)

> Therefore git does not store ownership, and only basic permissions 
> (only executable bit for ordinary files, and the symlink bit). 

Fine.  "git diff" reports wrong new permissions though: 755 instead of 764. 

shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git reset --hard HEAD
HEAD is now at 85d4483 test
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git config core.filemode
true
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar  3 11:00 x
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> chmod u+x x
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> git diff x
diff --git a/x b/x
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> ls -l x
-rwxrw-r-- 1 shanker users 0 Mar  3 11:00 x
shanker@linux-0tix:~/test/play2> 

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