Git changes my file permissions upon checkout

Question

Our workflow is develop on a local machine, commit the changes to a central repository, then check out the branch of that repository that we need.

The problem is tha

Answer 1

I often run a

git checkout -f file.xml

... on a versioned file.xml with world-write permissions, as I continually modify it and want to return it to the normal state.

But that resets the permissions. A slightly longer version:

git show HEAD:./file.xml > ./file.xml

Just resets the content.