Re: confused about preserved permissions

martin f krafft, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 18:44:11 +0200:

Hello,

I am a bit confused about how git stores and restores permissions.
I went to the web but found little other than this post from Linus
in 2005:

  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0870.html

where he basically says that git will *not* save permissions and
that it also does not save symlinks. I thus discarded the
information as being outdated. ...

Git tracks just the x-bit. Everything else is controlled by your
umask.

Symlinks are supported since long time.