looking for ideas to make sure file permissions are set to chmod 777 in a git repository

Question

We are using Git and GitHub

We have both Windows and Linux developers in our team.

The application will finally run on a Linux distribution.

Some of the files must have execute permission set (let's say chmod 777 for the sake of simplicity)

Is there any way for the Windows git clients to set the Linux file permissions in a git repository?

Conclusion

Use git update-index --chmod=+x <file> to set the permissions as @lavanya answered.

Use git ls-files -s to see the permissions. see this post explains how read the 6 digit mode number :How to read the mode field of git-ls-tree's output

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '21 at 19:00

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yes you can do it .

For example following command adds user execute permission to an arbitrary file:

git update-index --chmod=+x <file>

answered Apr 23 '21 at 19:00

lavanya

Just to make the approach complete, is there anyway to see the permission of a file using git for windows? – Allan Xu Apr 23 '21 at 19:05
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try using this command git ls-tree HEAD or git ls-files --stage – lavanya Apr 23 '21 at 19:31

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