Index: gedit/gedit-document-saver.c
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RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gedit/gedit/gedit-document-saver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -r1.5 gedit-document-saver.c
--- gedit/gedit-document-saver.c	1 Feb 2006 08:32:36 -0000	1.5
+++ gedit/gedit-document-saver.c	30 Mar 2006 16:11:23 -0000
@@ -692,7 +692,8 @@ save_existing_local_file (GeditDocumentS
 		 * original file. If this fails, set the protection
 		 * bits for the group same as the protection bits for
 		 * others. */
-		if (fchown (bfd, (uid_t) -1, statbuf.st_gid) != 0)
+		if ((getgid () != statbuf.st_gid) &&
+		    (fchown (bfd, (uid_t) -1, statbuf.st_gid) != 0))
 		{
 			if (fchmod (bfd,
 			            (statbuf.st_mode& 0707) |