IFS_OLD=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'
echo -n "Backing-up file permissions ... "

DIRS=()

for FILE in `git ls-files`
do
   # Save the permissions of all files in the index
   echo $FILE";"`stat -c "%a;%U;%G" $FILE` >> $DATABASE
   FILE_DIR=$(dirname "$FILE")
   if ! [[ " ${DIRS[@]} " =~ " ${FILE_DIR} " ]]; then
      DIRS+=("$FILE_DIR");
   fi
done

echo -n "and directory permissions ... "
for DIR in "${DIRS[@]}"
do
   # Save the permissions of all directories in the index
   echo $DIR";"`stat -c "%a;%U;%G" $DIR` >> $DATABASE
done

IFS=$IFS_OLD