Re: Checking out messes up execution bit
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Manuel Strehl wrote:
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> To put it in a nutshell: I edit and commit a file in branch "master", then I
> check out branch "dev" and the edited file gets the execution bit set. This
> leads to a working copy differing from the content of the index. It's
> especially painful when I try to merge "master" into "dev", which fails
> then. I'm working under ext4 and Samba/CIFS, respectively.
This is because CIFS does not support the execution bit.
> One answerer at superuser thinks that this looks like a bug in git itself.
> Therefore I'd like to check with you, if there is possibly another
> explanation for my observation, before I issue a bug report.
See core.fileMode in "git help config"
Peter Harris