How do I make Git ignore file mode chmod changes

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I have a project in which I have to change the mode of files with chmod to 777 while developing  but which should not change in the main repo    Git picks up on chmod -R 777   and marks all files as changed  Is there a way to make Git ignore mode changes that have been made to files

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By definining the following alias  in    gitconfig  you can easily temporarily disable the fileMode per git command    alias  nfm     f    git -c core fileMode false       f    When this alias is prefixed to the git command  the file mode changes won t show up with commands that would otherwise show them  For example   git nfm status

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This works for me   find   -type f -exec chmod a-x         or reverse  depending on your operating system  find   -type f -exec chmod a x

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If you want to set filemode to false in config files recursively  including submodules    find -name config   xargs sed -i -e  s filemode   true filemode   false

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If you want to set this option for all of your repos  use the --global option   git config --global core filemode false   If this does not work you are probably using a newer version of git so try the --add option   git config --add --global core filemode false   If you run it without the --global option and your working directory is not a repo  you ll get  error  could not lock config file  git config  No such file or directory

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Try   git config core fileMode false   From git-config 1     core fileMode     Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree     is to be honored       Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is     marked as executable is checked out  or checks out a     non-executable file with executable bit on  git-clone 1      or git-init 1  probe the filesystem to see if it handles the      executable bit correctly and this variable is automatically     set as necessary       A repository  however  may be on a filesystem that handles     the filemode correctly  and this variable is set to true when     created  but later may be made accessible from another     environment that loses the filemode  e g  exporting ext4     via CIFS mount  visiting a Cygwin created repository with Git     for Windows or Eclipse   In such a case it may be necessary     to set this variable to false  See git-update-index 1        The default is true  when core filemode is not specified     in the config file      The -c flag can be used to set this option for one-off commands   git -c core fileMode false diff   And the --global flag will make it be the default behavior for the logged in user   git config --global core fileMode false   Changes of the global setting won t be applied to existing repositories     Additionally  git clone and git init explicitly set core fileMode to true in the repo config as discussed in Git global core fileMode false overridden locally on clone  Warning  core fileMode is not the best practice and should be used carefully  This setting only covers the executable bit of mode and never the read write bits  In many cases you think you need this setting because you did something like chmod -R 777  making all your files executable  But in most projects most files don t need and should not be executable for security reasons   The proper way to solve this kind of situation is to handle folder and file permission separately  with something like   find   -type d -exec chmod a rwx         Make folders traversable and read write find   -type f -exec chmod a rw          Make files read write   If you do that  you ll never need to use core fileMode  except in very rare environment

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If  git config --global core filemode false   does not work for you  do it manually   cd into yourLovelyProject folder   cd into  git folder   cd  git   edit the config file   nano config   change true to false   core          repositoryformatversion   0         filemode   true   -    core          repositoryformatversion   0         filemode   false   save  exit  go to upper folder   cd      reinit the git  git init   you are done

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You can configure it globally   git config --global core filemode false  If the above doesn t work for you  the reason might be your local configuration overrides the global configuration    Remove your local configuration to make the global configuration take effect   git config --unset core filemode  Alternatively  you could change your local configuration to the right value   git config core filemode false

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Simple solution   Hit this Simple command in project Folder it won t remove your original changes     it will only remove changes that had been done while you changed project folder permission  command is below   git config core fileMode false  Why this all unnecessary file get modified  because you have changed the project folder permissions  with commend sudo chmod -R 777   yourProjectFolder  when will you check changes what not you did  you found like below while using git diff filename  old mode 100644 new mode 100755

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undo mode change in working tree   git diff --summary   grep --color  mode change 100755   gt  100644    cut -d    -f7-   xargs -d  n  chmod  x git diff --summary   grep --color  mode change 100644   gt  100755    cut -d    -f7-   xargs -d  n  chmod -x   Or in mingw-git  git diff --summary   grep   mode change 100755   gt  100644    cut -d    -f7-   xargs -e  n  chmod  x git diff --summary   grep   mode change 100644   gt  100755    cut -d    -f7-   xargs -e  n  chmod -x

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Adding to Greg Hewgill answer  of using core fileMode config variable    You can use --chmod  -   x option of git update-index  low-level version of  git add   to change execute permissions in the index  from where it would be picked up if you use  git commit   and not  git commit -a

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If you have used chmod command already then check the difference of file  It shows previous file mode and current file mode such as   new mode   755  old mode   644  set old mode of all files using below command  sudo chmod 644    now set core fileMode to false in config file either using command or manually   git config core fileMode false   then apply chmod command to change the permissions of all files such as   sudo chmod 755     and again set core fileMode to true   git config core fileMode true   For best practises don t Keep core fileMode false always

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