Re: Git changes permissions on directories when deleting files.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Chad Joan [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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But it just seems horribly broken to me. This is CIFS to an OpenVMS
machine you said? Do the broken permissions appear to other clients or
across a remount (i.e., is it broken state in your CIFS client, or has
the server actually munged permissions)? If so, have you tried reporting
the issue to whoever writes CIFS server on OpenVMS (is it just samba)?

-Peff

Yep, CIFS to OpenVMS.

I don't know about other clients because there are none (yet).  The
permission change does survive remounting.

I haven't reported it.  I didn't know it existed until now ;)

I'll do that, but it will probably take a long long time for me to see
the patch.  I'm hoping there's some cheap hack I can use to work
around it in the meantime.

A simple answer to preventing git from calling rmdir would be to run
rm and git rm separately:
$ rm file
$ git rm --cached -f file

But that doesn't solve the misbehavior of git under the previous
scenario. I'm not sure if this is something we should fix in git or if
it should be fixed in cifs.