Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b

On 08/08/2013 10:27 PM, Justin Collum wrote:

I've run into a strange situation with git lately. It seems that
anything I do involving git will alter the permissions on my index
file to the point that I can't do anything until I re-add the
permissions on the file.

Looks like a bug to me, is it? It does seem like this has started
happening since I moved over to 64b Ubuntu.

$ ll .git
total 156K
...
drwxrwxrwx   2 dev dev 4.0K Jul 23 09:30 hooks
-rwxrwxrwx   1 dev dev  17K Aug  8 13:12 index
drwxrwxrwx   2 dev dev 4.0K Jul 19 09:31 info
...

$ gs
# On branch build-0.3
# Your branch is ahead of 'staging/build-0.3' by 5 commits.
#   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# scripts/loadMongo.coffee
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

$ ll .git
total 156K
...
drwxrwxrwx   2 dev dev 4.0K Jul 23 09:30 hooks
-rw-rw-r--   1 dev dev  17K Aug  8 13:16 index   # <---------------
this line  <-------------------------------
drwxrwxrwx   2 dev dev 4.0K Jul 19 09:31 info
...

$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.4

Ubuntu:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

The permissions are set to reading for all and writing for you(r user)
and your group. This should be no problem with standard git commands.
Before you had the index file executable, why would you need that?

What kind of filesystem do you have? (The output of 'mount' would be 
interesting) 

Also what exactly breaks? ("can't do anything") 
What commands do not behave as you'd expect? 

Stefan