Re: increment backup of home dir

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Git *does* preserve permissions [1]. For the ownerships (and more accurate
> mtime, atime and ctime) cf. etckeeper.
Git only tracks the execute bit. And because it always writes a new file 
rather than truncate then write by most editors, the permissions get 
reset very easily:

$ touch test
$ chmod 700 test
$ git add test
$ echo >>test
$ ls -l test
-rwx------ 1 tim tim 1 Mar 16 07:45 test
$ git checkout test
Updated 1 path from the index
$ ls -l test
-rwxrwxr-x 1 tim tim 0 Mar 16 07:46 test