From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 04:14:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: correct newline in summary for renamed files
Message-ID: <xmqq8tgz31eo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <094ebbd4-1bc6-8360-222f-55a4a16a6ca3@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:

>> +	git checkout -b mode initial &&
>> +	git update-index --chmod=+x file0 &&
>
> would 'test_chmod +x file0 &&' work here?

This one wants to set +x only in the index, leaving the working tree
version without the executable bit.  test_chmod is about setting
both, so it would do something different from what we want to do
here.