On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:18:58 +0200, Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:38, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:12:42PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 18:57, Peter Kleiweg <pkleiweg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> I added a file that has file mode 600. When I do a check-out, >>>>> the file comes with mode 644. Is this supposed to happen? Then >>>>> how do I control what permissions files have? >>>> >>>> Do some googling. >>> >>> I really don't see the point of a response like this. It is one thing to >>> rudely point somebody to lmgtfy or an FAQ link. Then you're still being >>> rude, but at least you are pointing them in the right direction. But >>> this seems simply to make the list a less pleasant place _and_ to be >>> totally useless to the original poster. If you didn't want to give the >>> answer, wouldn't it have been better not to respond at all? >> >> No. >> >> Firstly: My response shows that there are abundant answers, which is a >> nicer answer to receive than no answer at all. >> >> Secondly: I didn't see the point in RE-WRITING all that has been said >> on the subject before, and I couldn't be sure that somebody else would >> be willing to do the same too (I figured it was a good idea to supply >> at least one response). >> >> Thirdly: Seriously, at least do some googling first. > > I think having answers like yours is much worse than having no answer > at all. I happen to know how git handles the storage of file > permissions, but like Jeff I couldn't find anything useful either with > some quick searching around. > > But it's very useful that the list have a friendly atmosphere where > people of different technical capability, or those that haven't found > the right terms to feed into a search engine can ask questions without > getting back an answer which at least to me seems very snarky. > > There's a tendency in a lot of mailing list to accumulate a > self-congratulating air from regulars "in the know" where people > asking questions aren't made to feel welcome. Let's try to not become > one of those lists. Peter Kleiwig, I would be most grateful if you could find it in your heart to forgive a poor, misguided, mutton-faced, thistle-bottomed, pig-swiving, ale-soused dungball such as myself. This wretch, I, humbly prostrates himself before the feet of the offended in earnest compunction over his unconscionably uncouth utterances; may I next time guard my tongue or, if finding myself unequal to that task, be so thoughtful as to bite it off, preserve it for at least a year and a day in a barrel of briny liquid most foul, and thenâon the coldest day of winterâdispense with it as fodder for the hunger pangs of feral cats! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html