Subject: Re: [cosmetic bug?] needlessly(?) executable files

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:21:03 +0100

On zo, 2015-02-22 at 10:44 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Just a question about files like:
> > .git/config
> > .git/hooks/*.sample
> >
> > Is there any reason that these are created executable? Especially
> the
> > config file?
> 
> In a new repository I just did "git init", I see this:
> 
>     $ rm -fr stupid
>     $ umask 0027
>     $ git init stupid
>     $ ls -l stupid/.git/config | sed -e 's/ .*//'
>     -rw-r-----
> 
> So no, config is not created executable.

It used to be for a brief period in history, between daa22c6f8d (2.1.0)
and 1f32ecf (2.2.2).

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Dennis Kaarsemaker
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