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Re: [Bug] git diff assumes executable permissions change is always 0755

From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2019, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20191122201149.GA70732@generichostname>
In-Reply-To
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Hi Wes,
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 02:47:02PM -0500, Wes Hurd wrote:
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> git 2.24.0
> macOS 10.14.6
> 
> To reproduce:
>  - Start a file, commit in git
>  - chmod 0744 file.txt
>  - git diff
>  - ls -l file.txt
> 
> git diff reports :
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755
> 
> expected:
> git lists actual permissions of file
> new mode 100744
> File's permissions are 0744 (-rwxr--r--)
> 
> Thanks,

This is expected behaviour. Git only tracks the user executable bit and extends it to group and other. See here[1] for more details.

Would setting your umask help in any way?
Thanks,
Denton
[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual#tree-object
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  1. Wes HurdNov 22, 2019
  2. Elijah NewrenNov 22, 2019
  3. Denton LiuNov 22, 2019

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