From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-2@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I force git to recognize a change change in file modes?
Message-ID: <20090228012524.GB17106@lars.home.noschinski.de>
In-Reply-To: <e38bce640902271717s46cf47f9i7c6bf5aac0d5f273@mail.gmail.com>

* Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> [09-02-28 02:17]:
> I checked in a slew of scripts, only to realize that the file
> permissions were too open (I want them to be chmod 700, not chmod
> 755).  Somehow I thought that git was tracking those permission bits,
> but simply using "chmod 700 <fileset>; git add <fileset>" did not add
> the change of file modes, well, at least git status output doesn't
> show it. Is there a way to do this?

Git does only track the executable bit.