On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Ruder <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > he is neither the user dev or the group dev I am both. There's only one user on this machine and he is me. > he is regularly running chmod -R 777 Yes, true. I have a program that I use to edit some of these files (not the git files) that likes to screw up permissions. It's a long story. Anyway, I've been running that chmod regularly since well before this git issue started. I'll start using 644 for the chmod and see if that helps. -- 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