Re: git pull on ia64 linux tree

Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10T22:45:02Z

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Luck, Tony wrote:
>
> This will update the files shown below.
>
> ..
> 16 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

Hmm. It also did:

mode change 100755 => 100644 arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py

was that really intentional?

Sure, the commit itself:

> Andrew Morton:
> [IA64] don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable

makes the Makefile work even for a non-executable file for when you use
inferior tools, but does that mean that we should have thrown away the
information that it *is* an executable file when not using those inferior
tools?

Linus