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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-12 15:39:21 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-12 15:39:21 -0400
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parentc079c1d7e851baecaacf303b816b98b72370afd6 (diff)
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@@ -35,3 +35,15 @@ Note that (as stated in the comments) this might not be a bug. The problem might
upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2
git version 1.8.4.3
+
+> Based on the new example, I don't consider this to be a bug.
+> I don't think that `git annex import` should disregard directory
+> permissions when importing files from them.
+>
+> One very good reason not to
+> eg, chmod the directory itself is that if it did, running `git annex
+> import` on a git-annex repository would defeat git-annex's own use of
+> directory permissions to prevent deletion of the files in that
+> repository!
+>
+> So, [[done]] --[[Joey]]