From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:21:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Making file permissions match
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608031620490.107993@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CAKON4OyiG=ddx77Bn3h-YAh-3BYGd2rXPb9smwaooWxfBmtDKw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jon,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file
> permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree.  I
> have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file
> permissions.
> 
> So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I
> unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions
> don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this
> noise from the file permissions.
> 
> Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas
> and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files
> this is too much to do manually.

Maybe setting core.filemode=false before committing?

Ciao,
Johannes