From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "'Albert Vaca Cintora'" <albertvaka@gmail.com>,
"'Johannes Sixt'" <j6t@kdbg.org>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Feature Request] Option to make .git not read-only in cloned repos
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:19:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008e01d55c2a$08749ea0$195ddbe0$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgpoj6ad.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On August 26, 2019 11:28 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
> >> Sometimes I clone a repo just to grep for an error string and then I
> >> don't need it anymore, or I clone several repos until I find the one
> >> that contains what I want and delete the rest. Sometimes I want to
> >> write a patch for some software I don't develop regularly so I don't
need
> to keep a clone of it.
> >>
> >> In any case, it would be useful to know the reason those files are
> >> read-only in the first place. Do you guys know who might know?
> >
> > Why don't you wrap your clone in a script that calls chmod -R u+w .git
> > after the clone? This seems like a pretty trivial approach regardless
> > of your workflow. This works in Linux, Mac, Windows (under
> > cygwin-bash) and anything else POSIX-ish.
>
> But on anything POSIX-ish, is it a problem for some files (but not any
> directory) in .git is made read-only?
Not for me or anyone I personally support. As I suggested to Albert,
wrapping a clone in a script with a chmod would solve the problem with
minimal work.
My own personal issue is convincing people not to clone for every topic
branch, but that's unrelated.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-26 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-23 20:43 [Feature Request] Option to make .git not read-only in cloned repos Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-25 11:59 ` Kevin Daudt
2019-08-25 14:39 ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-25 17:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-08-25 19:58 ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-25 22:41 ` Philip Oakley
2019-08-26 14:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26 18:42 ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-26 19:18 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-27 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-30 12:49 ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-30 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-30 18:26 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-30 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-31 20:40 ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-26 14:27 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-08-26 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26 16:19 ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
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