From: Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsserver strips exec bit
Message-ID: <52306C5A.7070507@cchtml.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtxhsux25.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Then what I wrote was actually relevant;-)
>
>      I am not sure if we want to use the owner bit (i.e. 4th place)
>      instead of the other bit (i.e. the last place) like this patch does,
>      though.  The old code in 1.8.1.x would have produced either "r" (for
>      100644) or "wx" (for 100755); I think that the result of applying
>      this patch would give us "r" (for 100644) or "rx" (for 100755).
>
> This should then work, I would think.

Yes, this new patch fixes the issue.

Thanks!
Michael