From: Rafael Kitover Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:53:33 GMT Subject: Re: ignoring file modes completely Message-ID: <4D4EC3FD.5010000@io.com> In-Reply-To: <4D4E9EAC.4030508@drmicha.warpmail.net> On 2/6/2011 8:14 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Rafael Kitover venit, vidit, dixit 05.02.2011 20:28: >> On 2/5/2011 11:58 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >>> On 02/05/2011 05:09 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: >>>> On 2/5/2011 11:03 AM, Jared Hance wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:24 -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I found the core.filemode option, which ignores executable bits, but I >>>>>> need an option to ignore all mode differences, and such an option does >>>>>> not seem to exist. >>>>> >>>>> The only mode tracked by Git is the executable bit, so this shouldn't >>>>> even be an issue. Are you sure the executable bit isn't the problem? >>>>> >>>> $ git config --global core.filemode >>>> false >>>> >>>> Output of "git diff HEAD" : >>>> >>>> diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL >>>> old mode 100755 >>>> new mode 100644 >>>> diff --git a/t/02ads.t b/t/02ads.t >>>> old mode 100755 >>>> new mode 100644 >>>> diff --git a/t/02cxn.t b/t/02cxn.t >>>> old mode 100755 >>>> new mode 100644 >>>> diff --git a/t/04os.t b/t/04os.t >>>> old mode 100755 >>>> new mode 100644 >>> >>> Those are all executable bit diffs. >>> >> >> Ok, but I have core.filemode set to "false" as I showed, why does this >> happen then? > > I can't confirm this on linux with current git. What are your versions? > Do you have a minimal example (starting from git init)? This is msysGit: $ git --version git version 1.7.3.1 I can't replicate this with just "git init" and a file, it seems to happen when I use "git cpan-init" in Cygwin then look at the repo in msysGit.