Re: [Census] So who uses git?

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:

what if the user wants to change the mode bits of an assume-unchanged
file with the twiddled permissions, but forgets to clear the flag
first?  seems like that change is likely to get lost, especially if the
new mode is read-only....

Remember - git only cares about execute permissions. The write permissions 
are entirely ignored by git ..

		Linus