Re: [Census] So who uses git?

Ray Lehtiniemi [off-list ref] writes:

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....

No problem, since we only record u+x bit and nothing else.  Most
importantly, we do not record any of the +w bits.