Git changes permissions on directories when deleting files.
From: Chad Joan <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:41
Hello, What I'm experiencing is this: $ cd ~/project $ ls -dl somedir drwxrwx--- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt $ git add somedir/somefile.txt $ git rm -f somedir/somefile.txt rm 'somedir/somefile.txt' $ ls -dl somedir drw------- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt bash: somedir/somefile.txt: Permission denied ~/project is actually a CIFS mount, with the host being an OpenVMS machine. If I use the normal rm command without using git then the permissions will remain the same on 'somedir'. This is why I suspect (and hope) this isn't OpenVMS related. It seems that execute bit is important for CIFS mounted files, because after this happens I am no longer able to do /anything/ within the 'somedir' directory. This also affects branches via "git checkout branchname": if the checkout happens to delete files then this will happen, and it will salt the wound by failing to sync a bunch of files in 'somedir' (because I can't access them anymore) while still moving HEAD to the new branch. The share on the CIFS host looks like this: [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0770 browseable = No vfs objects = varvfc vms path names = No case sensitive = Yes The fstab entry for the mount looks like this: //vms/homes /home/cjoan/project cifs credentials=/home/cjoan/.cifs_credentials,_netdev,uid=cjoan,gid=cjoan 0 0 I'd really like my directories to keep their permissions. Any idea what might cause this? - Chad