From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:34:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Line ending normalization doesn't work as expected
Message-ID: <20180216163422.GA2659@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499CSe6d1SBaDYNRD9HXaWRJ9QYzmOCaBWFrV52UNRMVqhA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:24:40AM -0600, Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> 
> Sorry to bring this old thread back to life, but I did notice that
> this causes file modes to reset back to 644 (from 755) on Windows
> version of Git. Is there a way to `$ git read-tree --empty && git add
> .` without mucking with file permissions?

No problem with the delay, under the time we had the chance to improve Git:

>Git 2.16 Release Notes
>======================
>[]
>* "git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact
>   that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other
>   "convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data.

Could you upgrade to Git 2.16.1 (or higher, just take the latest)
and try with
git add --renormalize .
?