Alexander Nestorov <alexandernst@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > echo "test" > myfile > chmod 777 myfile > git add myfile && git commit -m "Test" && git push > chmod 775 myfile > git reset --hard origin/master This doesn't tell what the permissions are in origin/master. If the last line was "git reset --hard HEAD", then it wouldn't touch myfile (it's executable in the worktree and in HEAD, so Git doesn't need to change it). Neither the x bit, nor the ctime or mtime. If you reset the file to a point where it was not executable, then Git changes its executable bit, and I don't see why it would do otherwise: Git tracks the executable bit, so when you say "reset the file to how it was in this revision", this includes the content and executability. Reading your message, I don't understand why you need to be able to ignore the x bit. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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