Automatically apply “git update-index –chmod=+x” to executable files
git 2.9.X/2.10 (Q3 2016) brings chmod to git add itself! See commit 4e55ed3 (31 May 2016) by Edward Thomson (ethomson). Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin (dscho). (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit c8b080a, 06 Jul 2016) add: add –chmod=+x / –chmod=-x options The executable bit will not be detected (and therefore will not … Read more