From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:34:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark gitk script executable
Message-ID: <7vlj2x8mr4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1101061943140.6372@dr-wily.mit.edu>

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.