Hi Junio, On Wed, 25 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 25 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> * I am not familiar with life on filesystems with core.filemode=0; > >> do files people would want to be able to "add --chmod=+x" share > >> common trait that can be expressed with .gitattributes mechanism? > > > > I think it is safe to say that the biggest example of core.filemode == 0 > > is Windows. On that platform, there simply is no executable bit in the > > sense of POSIX permissions. ... > > ... I still like Ed's idea and would love to have it: it is murky waters to > > require users to call plumbing only because our porcelain isn't up to par. > > I thought that I made it absolutely clear that I like the addition, > too. If it wasn't clear enough, I can say it again, but I do not > think you need it ;-). Oh, I understood that you liked it, sorry if my mail looked accusatory. > The "attribute" thing was an idea that was hoping to make the system > as a whole even more helpful; I understood that, too. My first impression was that it would not be. However, as Git for Windows can set default attributes in /mingw64/etc/gitconfig, I guess it would actually be helpful. We could automatically mark all *.exe, *.com, *.bat, *.cmd files as executable. It would then still be the users' responsibility to add their own attributes for, say, *.js, *.rb, *.py, *.sh, and whatever else. 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