Subject: Re: [PATCH] init - Honour the global core.filemode setting

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:07:16 -0700

Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> 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]).