Hi Wes, On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 02:47:02PM -0500, Wes Hurd wrote: > git 2.24.0 > macOS 10.14.6 > > To reproduce: > - Start a file, commit in git > - chmod 0744 file.txt > - git diff > - ls -l file.txt > > git diff reports : > old mode 100644 > new mode 100755 > > expected: > git lists actual permissions of file > new mode 100744 > File's permissions are 0744 (-rwxr--r--) > > Thanks, This is expected behaviour. Git only tracks the user executable bit and extends it to group and other. See here[1] for more details. Would setting your umask help in any way? Thanks, Denton [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual#tree-object
