Re: [git-users] Re: Git ignores global filemode setting when clonning new repositories

2019-11-21 Thread Jiří Bělský
Thanks for reply, Repos are hosted on gitlab and most devs are on linux (but not all) and as example, when i set filemode=true in one of the repos, it gives me changes in .gitkeep file saying i added a line to it (its empty file) But again, since it does set it automatically, guess my option

Re: [git-users] Re: what is git add . ???

2019-11-21 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "PO" == Philip Oakley writes: HI Philip > Hi Uwe, [Snip]... > So in Git, you can add 'everything', a few things, or even pick lines from > files, for each commit, leaving the worktree (real filesystem content) > distinct from the 'staging area/index' (equivalent to the old

Re: [git-users] Re: what is git add . ???

2019-11-21 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Uwe, On 21/11/2019 08:44, Uwe Brauer wrote: "PO" == Philip Oakley writes: HI Philip > Hi Uwe, [Snip]... > So in Git, you can add 'everything', a few things, or even pick lines from > files, for each commit, leaving the worktree (real filesystem content) > distinct from

Re: [git-users] Re: Git ignores global filemode setting when clonning new repositories

2019-11-21 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Jiří, The thing to note here is that filemode is only affecting (the understanding of) the executable bit. It does *not* affect the file contents at all, so if the 'empty' .gitkeep file is now being shown as having gained a line then there is some other effect going on. It maybe that