On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Manuel Strehl wrote: > To put it in a nutshell: I edit and commit a file in branch "master", then I > check out branch "dev" and the edited file gets the execution bit set. This > leads to a working copy differing from the content of the index. It's > especially painful when I try to merge "master" into "dev", which fails > then. I'm working under ext4 and Samba/CIFS, respectively. This is because CIFS does not support the execution bit. > One answerer at superuser thinks that this looks like a bug in git itself. > Therefore I'd like to check with you, if there is possibly another > explanation for my observation, before I issue a bug report. See core.fileMode in "git help config" Peter Harris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html