From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:32:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Filtering mode changes
Message-ID: <8aa486160808010532k3932979er1a457b0d627e988@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080801T111754-982@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 13:25, Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Here's my story:
>
> - I did some minor modifications to a repo that I want to 'give back'.
> - I worked on my own branch (of course).
> - I was stupid to edit the files (that live on a linux box) through a windows
>  network share.

Then, you should set core.fileMode to false.

> - When I created diffs (using 'git format-patch') to send send 'upstream', I
>  noticed that the edited files got their executable bit set (old mode 100644 ->
>  new mode 100755)

You can just edit the patches and remove the "old/new mode" lines.

> - I created another commit to undo the mode changes.

You can use "git rebase -i" and edit (or squash) the revision before
generating the patch.

Santi