Hi, On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Catalin Marinas wrote: > "Bradford Smith" <bradford.carl.smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, when I tried running 'git-config --global color.diff auto' > > today, it removed my symlink and replaced it with a real file. This > > left me briefly a bit confused when the changes I had made didn't show > > up in ~/etc/gitconfig, but git-config reported them anyway. > > Another problem I have with 'git config --global' is that it changes > the access permission bits of ~/.gitconfig. Since I use the same file > to store global StGIT configuration like SMTP username and password, > I'd like to make its access 0600 but it always goes back to 0644 after > 'git config --global'. > > Maybe fixing the symlink case would solve my problem as well. More likely not. The way to solve it would be to follow the link if the target path is one. As such, the _file_ would be rewritten. So your problem is unrelated, and would need a separate fix. Ciao, Dscho - 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
