From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:38:19 GMT
Subject: Re: `make profile-install` fails in 2.9.3
Message-ID: <xmqq4m5zutyc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160901222015.wqhrerudnwddbyhz@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah, I had a similar thought, but it just feels so hacky. Is there
> anything wrong with making this completely separate from the content
> update. I.e., just applying the pathspec to the index as a separate step
> and adding "+x" to each entry?
>
> This really is just a more convenient interface around "update-index
> --chmod", isn't it? We should be able to do the same thing it does.

Sure, the simplest and the most straight-forward way may look dumb,
but it would be the safest.