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

First check file permissions using below command.

git ls-files --stage

Then change permissions. Here "x" represents execute permissions.

git update-index --chmod=+x 'scriptname.ext'

Now re-verify the permissions.

git ls-files --stage

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if you are using Windows PC, but deploying on linux machine. Execute the below command in the first place to make it compatible to run on linux machine

dos2unix scriptname.ext scriptname.ext