From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:01:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark gitk script executable
Message-ID: <20110107030119.GA32290@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vlj2x8mr4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> The executable bit on gitk-git/gitk was lost (accidentally it seems) by 
>> commit 62ba5143ec2ab9d4083669b1b1679355e7639cd5.  Put it back, so that 
>> gitk can be run directly from a git.git checkout.
>>
>> Note that the script is already executable in gitk.git, just not in 
>> git.git.
>
> It did not lose the bit by accident but 62ba5143 pretty much was a
> deliberate fix.  "gitk" is a source file, and its build product,
> gitk-wish, is what is eventually installed with executable bit on.

How does this case differ from other executable source files like
git-am.sh?