Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Brent Goodrick [off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks Jan.  Was this choice made due to the conditional coding
required to track the permission bits content between *NIX and
non-*NIX platform(s)?

The short answer is: because Git was designed to track content. The
long answer is more complicated. Here's one of the more useful past
discussions:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91783

I'm sure you can find others by searching the git list for "metadata".

j.