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diff --git a/doc/bugs/assistant_doesn__39__t_sync_file_permissions/comment_1_fc8d3ea209a2ab39c1aeff52452d4c58._comment b/doc/bugs/assistant_doesn__39__t_sync_file_permissions/comment_1_fc8d3ea209a2ab39c1aeff52452d4c58._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9e1b801a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/assistant_doesn__39__t_sync_file_permissions/comment_1_fc8d3ea209a2ab39c1aeff52452d4c58._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + nickname="joey" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-05-31T21:17:17Z" + content=""" +More generally, symbolic links cannot have permissions of their own, and git in fact indicates a file is a symlink by setting the tree object's mode to a specific magic number. So there is no git metadata that git-annex can use to track whether a file is supposed to be executable. + +Therefore, this will only get fixed when there's some kind of full-fledged metadata storage for git. +"""]] |