Making file permissions match

> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file
> permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree.  I
> have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file
> permissions.
> 
> So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I
> unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions
> don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this
> noise from the file permissions.
> 
> Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas
> and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files
> this is too much to do manually.

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file
>> permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree.  I
>> have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file
>> permissions.
>>
>> So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I
>> unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions
>> don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this
>> noise from the file permissions.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas
>> and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files
>> this is too much to do manually.
>
> (I'm not sure if I understand "match" correctly)
>
> You can ignore changes in the executable permissions:
> git config core.filemode false
>
> Please let us know if it works

> I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file
> permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree.  I
> have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file
> permissions.
> 
> So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I
> unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions
> don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this
> noise from the file permissions.
> 
> Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas
> and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files
> this is too much to do manually.