# Re: Issue with GitGUI losing file permissions on merge 1 messages from 2011-02-21 to 2011-02-21. Participants: Stefan Haller. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/26566 ## Stefan Haller, 2011-02-21 07:25 Subject: Re: Issue with GitGUI losing file permissions on merge Message-ID: <1jx15l9.1taq59z1rcvgbxM%lists@haller-berlin.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1jx15l9.1taq59z1rcvgbxM%25lists%40haller-berlin.de In-Reply-To: <79ec6c5b-eb2e-4f19-90c6-00e3af72797e@q14g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> ``` Lyle wrote: > I've had an odd issue pop up a few times. After chatting with some > people on #git and doing some further testing I finally managed to > narrow down what's causing the issue. The git command line behaves > properly, but GitGUI changes the file permission on the merge, losing > the execute permission. So 0755 files become 0644, causing problems > when pushed back to origin and pulled down to a Linux repo. I've run into this too. It has little to do with git gui though, and nothing with msysgit. It's a bug in git-update-index (which git gui happens to call when you stage a file). Here's some more information about it: It is still on my to-do list to try and fix the problem, but I have never gotten around to it yet. -- Stefan Haller Berlin, Germany http://www.haller-berlin.de/ ```