Re: ignoring file modes completely

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

On 02/05/2011 05:09 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> On 2/5/2011 11:03 AM, Jared Hance wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:24 -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I found the core.filemode option, which ignores executable bits, but I
>>> need an option to ignore all mode differences, and such an option does
>>> not seem to exist.
>>
>> The only mode tracked by Git is the executable bit, so this shouldn't
>> even be an issue. Are you sure the executable bit isn't the problem?
>>
> $ git config --global core.filemode
> false
> 
> Output of "git diff HEAD" :
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644
> diff --git a/t/02ads.t b/t/02ads.t
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644
> diff --git a/t/02cxn.t b/t/02cxn.t
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644
> diff --git a/t/04os.t b/t/04os.t
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644

Those are all executable bit diffs.

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