Hi, all, some people have bemoaned Fossil's lack of file permissions support over the years. Initially, Fossil did not track _any_ permissions, but the executable bit was eventually added because it is common practice to have an executable configure script in the source tree.
What i didn't know, though, is that git doesn't, either. i always assumed git can do anything except except for making me a happy user. To quote the GIT Pocket Guide from O'Reilly[1]: "Originally, Git saved and restored the full permissions on files (all the mode bits). Later, however, this was deemed to cause more trouble than it was worth, so the interpretation of the mode bits ... was changed ... the only valid values for the low 12 bits of the mode... are octal 755 and 644, and these simply indicate that the file should be executable or not... the actual mode value may be different depending on your umask setting..." [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024972.do <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024972.do>-- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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