Re: --diff-filter=T does not list x changes

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Anders Melchiorsen <anders@kalibalik.dk> writes:

> ... way to pick out the commits that toggle the x
> bit? That is a problem that I am facing, with no solution shown so far ...

Are you interested in executable-bit only change, or any change that
contains changes to the executable-bit?  If I were looking for the latter,
probably finding "^:100664 100775 " (or the other way around) in log --raw
(or whatchanged) output would be what I would do --- the mode changes are
rare enough in a sane project, so I wouldn't mind having to do such
scripting as needed.

There are other "commit pickers" such as -S<strting> and --diff-filter
that do not absolutely have to exist (iow, they could also be scripted),
but what they pick earned easy shortcuts because the need is very common.
Once you can demonstrate that the need to pick executable-bit changes is
also very common, _and_ if you can come up with a clean solution, we might
add a commit picker that looks for changes in executable-ness in the
future.  I dunno.