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

Alternatively you can set a default permission for the folder in question like so: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1314/how-to-set-default-file-permissions-for-all-folders-files-in-a-directory