On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:46:06AM -0400, jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm working with some Windows programmers that don't believe in file > permissions They keep sending me zip files of their source tree. I > have my copy of the tree in git on Linux with all of the correct file > permissions. > > So I unzip the archive they send me and to see what they changed. I > unzip it on top of my git tree. But now all of the file permissions > don't match. The code deltas are there but there is also all of this > noise from the file permissions. > > Is there an easy way to deal with this? I want to keep the code deltas > and ignore the permission changes. Since there are about 100K files > this is too much to do manually. (I'm not sure if I understand "match" correctly) You can ignore changes in the executable permissions: git config core.filemode false Please let us know if it works -- 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