Git file permissions on Windows

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I've read through a few questions regarding file permissions in Git and I'm still a bit confused. I've got a repo on GitHub forked from another. Post merge, they should be identical. However:

$ git diff --summary origin/epsilon master/epsilon
 mode change 100644 => 100755 ants/dist/sample_bots/csharp/compile.sh
 mode change 100644 => 100755 ants/dist/starter_bots/coffeescript/MyBot.coffee
 mode change 100644 => 100755 ants/dist/starter_bots/coffeescript/ants.coffee
 mode change 100644 => 100755 ants/util/block_test.sh
 mode change 100644 => 100755 manager/mass_skill_update.py
 mode change 100644 => 100755 worker/jailguard.py
 mode change 100644 => 100755 worker/release_stale_jails.py
 mode change 100644 => 100755 worker/start_worker.sh

I've tried changing file permissions, but it does not alter the diff results.

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7 Answers

First check file permissions using below command.

git ls-files --stage

Then change permissions. Here "x" represents execute permissions.

git update-index --chmod=+x 'scriptname.ext'

Now re-verify the permissions.

git ls-files --stage

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if you are using Windows PC, but deploying on linux machine. Execute the below command in the first place to make it compatible to run on linux machine

dos2unix scriptname.ext scriptname.ext

user_20579020

In my case, I accidentally shifted the shebang line so that

#! /bin/sh

became

   #! /bin/sh

This fails the git-bash permission check. After removing the leading whitespaces, the script becomes executable again.

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