Re: Making file permissions match
Hi Jon, On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, jonsm...@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. Maybe setting core.filemode=false before committing? Ciao, Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Making file permissions match
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsm...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Making file permissions match
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsm...@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 Thanks, that might work. It will take a few hours to check since the repo is huge. -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
