From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD161F858 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932160AbcHCOQx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:16:53 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:55551 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753254AbcHCOQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:16:52 -0400 Received: from localhost ([195.252.60.88]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MgOUY-1bsVq32PX4-00NkwX; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:08:01 +0200 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:07:30 +0200 From: Torsten =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6gershausen?= To: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" Cc: Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Making file permissions match Message-ID: <20160803140730.GA2390@atze2.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:3qWGD06RAS80YKxEjAz9SnCt31r7eS9h0IM8arV5WEL0cUZZYF+ RPcGkrcO+N0L4vfYCgW+f5jluZzz47X5hRgslYmg+Ep5xNOOXyM5ZG1Wo77tPhmf4pR4V0q YzlhbBajnSJKgexoS4jKX13rDbZDX0u6UD/M2ESsp3W2BcO7oVcYxpvlDohTiCiniBbzT+I S7A72AZmHySfWPgSF5mng== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:vTxh1ELni+4=:clLThHbR3Pw3bnPHLJ1pu/ JLntoT3Vdzba+7NIX2ZlSjmKo/U2f8N42aakIjd2BX9Mr1dbur8nxBRcXBdaHyt3BMF4xoIIY zStTE4qh3UW/6i35zhakMaDTKYdxSEcPz02ws8ZhZSolGQAf8whqVRBaLeOQ5y33GWSieEz4l Fkrsej100vZP+VvGgrsLhxbSyTgdEqmC1lRVmlfeXLl3H4J9f0a5kSM5cVkpzWOZ1NCmKrEl0 ev9uBH3UoflrPV6g/AqxxTHCpLZRVquHYuOAb/2cm0tuupt+RvTF4eKXnKJ/UGrdh9N4eN29l rishElF1m9Z6gJipqXY0S4pKcU8tpoNYtfGYVdhKDMbWqwxBNRv5eiT8V/RLQXpM34N1x7bTq RLe+VbfRlA9VGQr619z6rljMdTtTMbxBKPyx1ivQ0I+or5Hop0HRK9za0mNYbg6bEcG52RTF/ YtW2a9H4npQsFFNSXB5J0mLnrzDrb3liX2WDmn9iM22+qcGMQgHvwxbq2HYHEDM9J4zyrTvJ4 Zq2ZvLaG0V1QdBjIFKCkTBsp3pCj1hIi93h+upm8js4Mnh/dcwPgRwfaKKzgdl86ERhb1G/li usSrfI88WIwFASkM+3b7qiSTiMZ0JNBh+fHck0QBb1ydO7yp9ZLv0XiKrrF0dHh329m3I4Kvv n1na10Tv/PjYCWgnOysnldjoEOB7Exw1SEm9sHwxn7mIoJ8GbVbyFof3nqGs3MOq+izPCHb7F C1nl73Eddns2zHZC483aU2xVxq4O7yHTG4s96BOoEkEG0YdCPAGiT8yERJo= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file > permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree. I > have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file > permissions. > > So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I > unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions > don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this > noise from the file permissions. > > Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas > and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files > this is too much to do manually. (I'm not sure if I understand "match" correctly) You can ignore changes in the executable permissions: git config core.filemode false Please let us know if it works