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Why git doesn't track file's "read"/"write" permission?

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I just want to know why GIT doesnt track read/write permission? What I want is just GIT keep what every I checked in? ( I am OK with the executable permission control)

posted Aug 26, 2015 by Ahmed Patel

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It's sort of a philosophical issue. If you are placing a file into a repository, it is by definition "read only". You can never 'write' the same revision, but with a different content - it would be a contradiction. Hence the r/w flags are ignored.

It's important to remember that as concieved, Git is not a deployment tool, so it didn't need r/w permissions, and as open source DVCS, everything checked out would be local so the user would have full control, so read-only couldn't be relied on anyway, and we hope the user will contribute a change/improvement so 'write' it is!

Likewise it doesn't store timestamps (of the files) either..

There is a Linus 'rant' somewhere on the issue..

answer Feb 10, 2016 by Manikandan J
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