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Re: Odd Difference Between Windows Git and Standard Git

From
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
May 20, 2016, 14:19 UTC
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<c20b9819-1b2d-6704-d870-1c0102dd9e35@gmail.com>
On 20.05.16 15:48, Jon Forrest wrote:
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> 
> On 5/20/2016 6:19 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> On 20.05.16 03:48, Jon Forrest wrote:
>>> I'm running Git version 2.8.2 built from source on Ubuntu 16.04.
>>> I'm using a repository that's stored on Dropbox. I'm the only person
>>> accessing this repo. Everything works great.
>>>
>>> For reasons unrelated to Git, I decided to try Git for Windows,
>>> so I installed "git version 2.8.2.windows.1" on Windows 10.
>>> When I run 'git status' on Ubuntu the list I see is exactly what
>>> I expect. However, when I run 'git status' on the
>>> same Dropbox repo on Windows, I see what I expect plus I'm told
>>> that every .pdf file and some .png files are modified.
>> To bring at least a little light into the story:
>>
>> What does
>> git diff
>> say ?
> 
> Great question. For all the unexpected files it says the
> same thing:
> 
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644

So the solution is to run git config core.filemode false

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  10. Johannes SchindelinMay 23, 2016
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