Updating and committing only a file s permissions using git version control

Question

Just turned an some sh file into an executable  chmod 755       the permissions were updated but not the content  Is there a way to commit the file into git  so that the executable bit will be restored set on clone   checkout   pull    Update  how can I track that the new permissions were submitted to github

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By default  git will update execute file permissions if you change them  It will not change or track any other permissions   If you don t see any changes when modifying execute permission  you probably have a configuration in git which ignore file mode   Look into your project  in the  git folder for the config file and you should see something like this    core      filemode   false   You can either change it to true in your favorite text editor  or run   git config core filemode true   Then  you should be able to commit normally your files  It will only commit the permission changes

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Not working for me    The mode is true  the file perms have been changed  but git says there s no work to do    git init git add dir file chmod 440 dir file git commit -a   The problem seems to be that git recognizes only certain permission changes

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fooMonster article worked for me    git ls-tree HEAD 100644 blob 55c0287d4ef21f15b97eb1f107451b88b479bffe    script sh   As you can see the file has 644 permission  ignoring the 100   We would like to change it to 755     git update-index --chmod  x script sh   commit the changes    git commit -m  Changing file permissions   master 77b171e  Changing file permissions 0 files changed  0 insertions     0 deletions -  mode change 100644   gt  100755 script sh

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