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what is “stat information” in a git index?

2019-07-04 06:43发布

问题:

In git documentation (like git-checkout-index http://linux.die.net/man/1/git-checkout-index ), there are references to "stat information" in the index file. What is this mysterious "stat information"?

回答1:

That's information that would be returned by stat() - in particular, file permissions, since that's what's actually tracked. (Other information includes timestamps, filesize, user/group owners, and the inode.)

There's also a command-line program stat which is essentially a wrapper for that system call; try stat <file> and you'll see all that kind of information.



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