On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 13:25, Stefan Naewe <
[hidden email]> 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
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