Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] create_default_files(): don't set u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/config

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:06:04 +0100

On 2014-11-15 08.26, Michael Haggerty wrote:
The whole thing looks good to me, some minor comments below
> git_config_set() copies the permissions from the old config file to
> the new one. This is a good change in and of itself, but it interacts
> badly with create_default_files()'s sloppiness, causing "git init" to
> leave the executable bit set on $GIT_DIR/config.
> 
> So change create_default_files() to reset the permissions on
s/permissions/executable bit/ ?
> $GIT_DIR/config after its test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  builtin/init-db.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c
> index 56f85e2..95ca5e4 100644
> --- a/builtin/init-db.c
> +++ b/builtin/init-db.c
> @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *template_path)
>  		filemode = (!chmod(path, st1.st_mode ^ S_IXUSR) &&
>  				!lstat(path, &st2) &&
>  				st1.st_mode != st2.st_mode);
> +		chmod(path, st1.st_mode);
A "blind" chmod() is good, but I think checking the return code is better.

                filemode &= (!chmod(path, st1.st_mode));

>  	}
>  	git_config_set("core.filemode", filemode ? "true" : "false");
>