From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 23:57:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: correct newline in summary for renamed files
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYAzcjECZ0Pt3weyxE0V7J0WCM=M-MvM+HM9DgBDcJQTA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <094ebbd4-1bc6-8360-222f-55a4a16a6ca3@ramsayjones.plus.com>

>> +     GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-06-26 00:06:00 +0000" &&
>> +     GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-06-26 00:06:00 +0000" &&
>> +     export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE GIT_COMMITTER_DATE &&
>> +     git checkout -b mode initial &&
>> +     git update-index --chmod=+x file0 &&
>
> would 'test_chmod +x file0 &&' work here?

That is what I was looking for in my previous solution,
this one doesn't care about the on-disk things at all (regarding
the mode of files).

So I would argue that test_chmod may be overkill
(well we could drop the force flag from the following
checkout... not sure if that is a good trade off)