martin f krafft, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 18:44:11 +0200: > Hello, > > I am a bit confused about how git stores and restores permissions. > I went to the web but found little other than this post from Linus > in 2005: > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0870.html > > where he basically says that git will *not* save permissions and > that it also does not save symlinks. I thus discarded the > information as being outdated. ... Git tracks just the x-bit. Everything else is controlled by your umask. Symlinks are supported since long time. - 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
