From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 18:30:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add: add --chmod=+x / --chmod=-x options
Message-ID: <xmqqmvnbqrov.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoa7sroru.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com> writes:
>
>> However I do not think that this is a common enough action that it needs
>> to be made automatic such that when I `git add foo.rb` it is
>> automatically made executable.  I think that the reduced complexity of
>> having a single mechanism to control executability (that being the
>> execute mode in the index or a tree) is preferable to a gitattributes
>> based mechanism, at least until somebody else makes a cogent argument
>> that the gitattributes approach would be helpful for them.  :)
>
> It wasn't a "having to specify it every time sucks; you must do this
> way instead" at all.  I was just gauging if it would be a viable idea
> for a follow-up series to complement your patch.
>
> Thanks.

Oh, having said all of that, the comments on the implementation
still stand.