From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
To: Manuel Strehl <manuel.strehl@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking out messes up execution bit
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:11:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimCm7f445K-RhK4cPhvccVP7LcdQPCxRQ+uVzcW@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD5C478.1010604@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Manuel Strehl wrote:
> To put it in a nutshell: I edit and commit a file in branch "master", then I
> check out branch "dev" and the edited file gets the execution bit set. This
> leads to a working copy differing from the content of the index. It's
> especially painful when I try to merge "master" into "dev", which fails
> then. I'm working under ext4 and Samba/CIFS, respectively.
This is because CIFS does not support the execution bit.
> One answerer at superuser thinks that this looks like a bug in git itself.
> Therefore I'd like to check with you, if there is possibly another
> explanation for my observation, before I issue a bug report.
See core.fileMode in "git help config"
Peter Harris
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2010-11-06 21:11 Checking out messes up execution bit Manuel Strehl
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