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Why is tortoise-git changing my file permissions?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20266594 views
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I switch between using tortoise git and cmd line git on cygwin very frequently, and lately I've noticed that when I via cygwin and no changes are found, then I go to use tortoise git, and right click on a repo then use the "Git Commit -> ..." menu item, I get a list of files that have supposedly ch…

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Fix for: Why is tortoise-git changing my file permissions?

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Read the documentation on git config. add --global to set it over all of your git projects.

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