How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?

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I have a project in which I have to change the mode of files with chmod to 777 while developing, but which should not change in the main repo.

Git picks up on chmod -R 777 . and marks all files as changed. Is there a way to make Git ignore mode changes that have been made to files?

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14 Answers

undo mode change in working tree:

git diff --summary | grep --color 'mode change 100755 => 100644' | cut -d' ' -f7- | xargs -d'\n' chmod +x
git diff --summary | grep --color 'mode change 100644 => 100755' | cut -d' ' -f7- | xargs -d'\n' chmod -x

Or in mingw-git

git diff --summary | grep  'mode change 100755 => 100644' | cut -d' ' -f7- | xargs -e'\n' chmod +x
git diff --summary | grep  'mode change 100644 => 100755' | cut -d' ' -f7- | xargs -e'\n' chmod -x

Or in BSD/macOS

git diff --summary | grep --color 'mode change 100644 => 100755' | cut -d' ' -f7- | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 chmod -x
git diff --summary | grep --color 'mode change 100755 => 100644' | cut -d' ' -f7- | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 chmod -x
user_2357540

This works for me:

find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} \;

or reverse, depending on your operating system

find . -type f -exec chmod a+x {} \;
user_83303800

This may work: git config core.fileMode false

Admin1

You don't need to change the config file.

Just run:

git diff -G.

Note that the trailing dot is not end of sentence, but regex expression that matches everything, and must be included.

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