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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Renich Bon Ciric <renich@woralelandia•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature: support for file permissions
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:40:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwlyl2d5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGxGTk5eOGoUjrweZ9gLwBE6ev7oCZcu-aWWK2ydtpLkWgx8ew@mail.gmail.com> (Renich Bon Ciric's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:32:36 -0500")

Renich Bon Ciric <renich@woralelandia•com> writes:

> I think file permissions are really important for source code as well.
>
> For example, in web development, you want configuration files to be
> read only; specially if you're deploying with git.

That is not _source code_; you are talking about deployed set of
files, and as you said, Git is about source code and is not a tool
for deployment.

> Please, consider supporting them.

See the ancient discussion around this:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/375/focus=435

A short answer is that it is not likely to happen.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 21:32 Feature: support for file permissions Renich Bon Ciric
2013-10-24 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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