Subject: Re: most commonly used git commands?

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:29:38 +0200

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > No. It was meant as Alex said it. Windows (MinGW) doesn't understand
> > "chmod a+x blub".
> 
> Yes, I suspected that. But I don't see a need for it on Windows (MinGW) to
> begin with.

True for Windows-centered projects. But for cross-platform projects
--chmod=+x is needed every now and then.

AFAIAC, it's alright to fall back to update-index for those occasions,
even though they are not that rare due to a deficiency of
merge-recursive: When it merges an executable file, it loses the +x bit,
even if core.filemode=false!

-- Hannes