Show the permission of a indexed file in git

Question

This is related to another question I recently asked about storing a non-bare repository in Dropbox for easy movement between computers, so it may be helpful to read that qu

Answer 1

Use gitk as follows

$ gitk path/to/repository/file

In the opened window, under dashed line you can see six digits. The last three are the file permissions.

...
------------------------------- path/to/repository/file -------------------------
index a5e14048..08ce8948 100644
...

In the example above 6 digits are 100644 and file permission is 644