On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 07:51:24AM +0000, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Git *does* preserve permissions [1]. For the ownerships (and more accurate > > mtime, atime and ctime) cf. etckeeper. > > > Git only tracks the execute bit. And because it always writes a new file > rather than truncate then write by most editors, the permissions get reset > very easily:
I stand corrected. More precisely, it only tracks the first "x" (i.e. the user's). Sorry for the confusion. Cheers -- t
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