On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> wrote: >> (And why is it "& 07777" and not "& 0777") > > This is to preserve the uncommon sticky/sgid/suid bits. Probably not > needed, but better to keep as much intact as possible. > >> Can we avoid the fchmod() all together ? > > For single-user systems, sure. > > For multi-user systems with git-imap-send users and passwords in > $GIT_CONFIG, I suggest not.
You're saying this as if Windows is a single-user system. It's not, but it uses ACLs rather than POSIX permissions to manage file-system permissions. So far we've opted to ignore ACLs in Git for Windows, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
