Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> 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]). -- 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