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From: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@io.com>
Subject: Re: ignoring file modes completely
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:09:26 -0500
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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
...
...