From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Cc: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail•com>,
Git Users <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init - Honour the global core.filemode setting
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:07:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqegupm69n.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542ED4B8.40603@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:54:16 +0200")
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web•de> writes:
>> The first sentence says what happens, as it should.
>>
>> But it is not directly clear what makes the executable bit differ
>> and when it is a useful thing to ignore the differences, so the
>> second sentence that says "This may be useful" does not give the
>> reader very much.
>>
> Clearly a major improvement.
>
> Does this (still) include the original line
> "See linkgit:git-update-index[1]"
>
> which helps the user to add *.sh files "executable" to the index, even if
> core.filemode is false ?
Thanks for catching; I omitted the reference by accident.
Perhaps end that sentence like this instead?
... may be necessary to set this variable to `false`, and
maintain the executable bit with `git update-index --chmod`
(see linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-03 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 0:37 [PATCH] init - Honour the global core.filemode setting Hilco Wijbenga
2014-09-28 11:52 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-10-01 1:55 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2014-10-01 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-02 11:15 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-10-02 17:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-03 16:54 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-10-03 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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