On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 03:57:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Wait. After doing this, > > $ mkdir -p src/a && >src/b 2>src/a/c && chmod a-w src/b src/a/c > $ cp -R src dst > $ ls -lR dst > > dst/b and dst/a/c are 0440 (with umask 0027, which makes src/b and > src/a/c also 0440, which is copied with "cp -R"). Who is running that chmod and why? I know you are trying to simulate "somehow they lost their 'w' bit" here, but what is that "somehow"? Git does not track write-bits. So any git checkout should always have the bit set, no? And likewise would any tarball generated by git-archive. Does tar lose it on extraction? I would not think it would do so, short of a broken umask. Confused... -Peff -- 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