Junio C Hamano wrote:
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<OCTAL_MODE>
# Octal encoding, without prefix, of the file system object
# type and permission bits. The bit layout is according to the
# POSIX standard, with only regular files, directories, and
# symbolic links permitted. The actual permission bits are
# all zero except for regular files. The only permission bit
# of any consequence to Git is the owner executable bit. By
# default, the permission bits for files will be either 0644
# or 0755, depending on the owner executable bit.
;
It's not really "by default" -- more like "by definition", since
there is no way for the program to use something different. We
used to record non-canonical modes in ancient versions of git,
but I think fsck-objects would warn on objects created that way.
See git-mktree.
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