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> Git does not support any file permissions other than 644 and 755.

It does not but kinda does, git stores the entire unix mode in the tree object (in ascii encoded octal to boot), it has a legacy 775 mode (which gets signaled by fsck —strict, maybe, if that’s been fixed), and it will internally canonicalise all sorts of absolute nonsense.



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