Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>> $ git rm -r --cached . && git add .
>>>
>>> (Both should work)
>>>
>>> To be honest, from the documentation, I can't figure out the difference between
>>> $ git read-tree --empty
>>> and
>>> $ git rm -r --cached .
>>>
>>> Does anybody remember the discussion, why we ended up with read-tree ?
>> ...
>
> Sorry to bring this old thread back to life, but I did notice that
> this causes file modes to reset back to 644 (from 755) on Windows
> version of Git. Is there a way to `$ git read-tree --empty && git add
> .` without mucking with file permissions?
I think the message you are referring to is a tangent that discusses
how it was done in the old world, with issues that come from the
fact that with such an approach the paths are first removed from the
index and then added afresh to the index, which can lose cases and
executable bits when working on a filesystem that does not retain
enough information.
The way in the new world is to use "add --renormalize" which was
added at 9472935d ("add: introduce "--renormalize"", 2017-11-16), I
think.
