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martin f krafft, Mon, Aug 20, 2007 18:44:11 +0200:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a bit confused about how git stores and restores permissions.
> I went to the web but found little other than this post from Linus
> in 2005:
> 
>   http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0870.html
> 
> where he basically says that git will *not* save permissions and
> that it also does not save symlinks. I thus discarded the
> information as being outdated. ...

Git tracks just the x-bit. Everything else is controlled by your
umask.

Symlinks are supported since long time.