Hi Ed, On Tue, 24 May 2016, Edward Thomson wrote: > Users on deficient filesystems that lack an execute bit may still > wish to add files to the repository with the appropriate execute > bit set (or not). Although this can be done in two steps > (`git add foo && git update-index --chmod=+x foo`), providing the > `--chmod=+x` option to the add command allows users to set a file > executable in a single command that they're already familiar with. > > Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I like it! Some comments below: > diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c > index 145f06e..2a9abf7 100644 > --- a/builtin/add.c > +++ b/builtin/add.c > @@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static int ignore_add_errors, intent_to_add, ignore_missing; > static int addremove = ADDREMOVE_DEFAULT; > static int addremove_explicit = -1; /* unspecified */ > > +static char should_chmod = 0; > + > static int ignore_removal_cb(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) > { > /* if we are told to ignore, we are not adding removals */ > @@ -245,6 +247,15 @@ static int ignore_removal_cb(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unse > return 0; > } > > +static int chmod_cb(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) > +{ > + char *flip = opt->value; > + if ((arg[0] != '-' && arg[0] != '+') || arg[1] != 'x' || arg[2]) > + return error("option 'chmod' expects \"+x\" or \"-x\""); > + *flip = arg[0]; > + return 0; > +} > + > static struct option builtin_add_options[] = { > OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, N_("dry run")), > OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("be verbose")), > @@ -263,6 +274,9 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = { > OPT_BOOL( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, N_("don't add, only refresh the index")), > OPT_BOOL( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, N_("just skip files which cannot be added because of errors")), > OPT_BOOL( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, N_("check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run")), > + { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "chmod", &should_chmod, N_("(+/-)x"), > + N_("override the executable bit of the listed files"), > + PARSE_OPT_NONEG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, chmod_cb}, I wonder, however, whether it would be "cleaner" to simply make this an OPT_STRING and perform the validation after the option parsing. Something like: const char *chmod_string = NULL; ... OPT_STRING( 0 , "chmod", &chmod_string, N_("( +x | -x )"), N_("override the executable bit of the listed files")), ... flags = ... if (chmod_string) { if (!strcmp("+x", chmod_string)) flags |= ADD_CACHE_FORCE_EXECUTABLE; else if (!strcmp("-x", chmod_string)) flags |= ADD_CACHE_FORCE_NOTEXECUTABLE; else die(_("invalid --chmod value: %s"), chmod_string); } > diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h > index 6049f86..da03cd9 100644 > --- a/cache.h > +++ b/cache.h > @@ -581,6 +581,8 @@ extern int remove_file_from_index(struct index_state *, const char *path); > #define ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_ERRORS 4 > #define ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_REMOVAL 8 > #define ADD_CACHE_INTENT 16 > +#define ADD_CACHE_FORCE_EXECUTABLE 32 > +#define ADD_CACHE_FORCE_NOTEXECUTABLE 64 Hmm. This change uses up 2 out of 31 available bits. I wonder whether a better idea would be to extend struct update_callback_data to include a `force_mode` field, pass a parameter of the same name to add_files_to_cache() and then handle that in the update_callback(). Something like this: case DIFF_STATUS_MODIFIED: - case DIFF_STATUS_TYPE_CHANGED: + case DIFF_STATUS_TYPE_CHANGED: { + struct stat st; + if (lstat(path, &st)) + die_errno("unable to stat '%s'", path); + if (S_ISREG(&st.st_mode) && data->force_mode) + st.st_mode = data->force_mode; - if (add_file_to_index(&the_index, path, data->flags)) { + if (add_to_index(&the_index, path, &st, data->flags)) { if (!(data->flags & ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_ERRORS)) die(_("updating files failed")); data->add_errors++; } break; + } This would not only contain the changes in builtin/add.c, it would also force the mode change when core.filemode = true and core.symlinks = true (which your version would handle in a surprising way, I believe). > 2.6.4 (Apple Git-63) Time to upgrade? ;-) Ciao, Dscho -- 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