Git file permissions on Windows

Question

I\'ve read through a few questions regarding file permissions in Git and I\'m still a bit confused. I\'ve got a repo on GitHub forked from another. Post merge, they should b

Answer 1

From another question here on stackoverflow: How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?

Try:

git config core.filemode false

From git-config(1):

   core.fileMode
       If false, the executable bit differences between the index and the
       working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
       See git-update-index(1). True by default.