Re: Git changes permissions on directories when deleting files.

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:39:10PM -0500, Computer Druid wrote:

quoted

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.

That will fix some instances. But git will rmdir to clean up anytime it
removes content. That includes during a merge or patch application. So
you can't really get around those cases.

-Peff