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Asked: 2020-12-15 09:46:59 +0800 CST 2020-12-15 09:46:59 +0800 CST

How to ignore permission changes in git (chmod)?

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I am working on a project and I use git for version management. The problem I have is that if I change the permissions of the directory, they appear to me that the files were modified, but when I use git diffto observe the changes, a list like the following appears:

diff --git a/assets/images/icon-32-bcache.png b/assets/images/icon-32-bcache.png
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/assets/images/icon-32-help.png b/assets/images/icon-32-help.png
old mode 100644
new mode 100755

I consider these changes garbage to be in a commit. Is there a command that ignores these changes?

git

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To ignore permission changes in , it is done with:

    % git config core.fileMode false

    More information in Manual GIT Config :

    core.fileMode: If false, executable bit differences between the index and the working tree are ignored.

    Similar question: How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?

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  2. To ignore file permission changes, you should run:

    git config core.filemode false

    As I see that you are not interested in these changes at all, you can make this configuration global (that is, for all the repositories of your user):

    git config --global core.filemode false

    References:

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