Re: [Request] Git reset should be able to ignore file permissions

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:25:22PM +0200, Alexander Nestorov wrote:

Recently I had to write some automation scripts and I found
that git reset --hard actually restores each file's permissions.

That is causing both the created and the last-modified dates
of the file to get changed to the time of the git reset.

This behavior is easy to demonstrate:

echo "test" > myfile
chmod 777 myfile
git add myfile && git commit -m "Test" && git push
chmod 775 myfile
git reset --hard origin/master

After the git reset --hard command, the entire file was
checkout-ed. Instead, git should be able to check if the
content of the file changed and only if it did, check it out.

Does "git reset --keep" behave in the same way?  I would expect it to
leave permissions as they were.