On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 13:25, Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe+git@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there. > > Here's my story: > > - I did some minor modifications to a repo that I want to 'give back'. > - I worked on my own branch (of course). > - I was stupid to edit the files (that live on a linux box) through a windows > network share. Then, you should set core.fileMode to false. > - When I created diffs (using 'git format-patch') to send send 'upstream', I > noticed that the edited files got their executable bit set (old mode 100644 -> > new mode 100755) You can just edit the patches and remove the "old/new mode" lines. > - I created another commit to undo the mode changes. You can use "git rebase -i" and edit (or squash) the revision before generating the patch. Santi -- 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