How to give a file execute mode permissions in Git

Question

My git is installed on a Windows OS and I want to push an executable shell script into the git repo. I can perform this in two steps, is there a way I can do this is one step?

I need to do make two git commits:

$ vi install.sh

$ git add install.sh  

$ git commit -am "add new file for installation" # commit1

[master f2e92da] add support for install.sh

 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

 create mode 100644 install.sh

$ git update-index --chmod=+x install.sh

$ git commit -am "update file permission"        # commit2

[master 317ba0c] update file permission

  0 files changed

  mode change 100644 => 100755 install.sh

How can I combine these two steps into one?

Answer 1

You can easily do this in one commit, you can add the file and mark it executable. Just follow the below steps:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>touch foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git add foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage

100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh

Note that, after adding, the mode is 0644 (ie, not executable). Now, we can give it executable permissions before committing:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git update-index --chmod=+x foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage

100755 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh

Now the file is mode 0755 , which is the executable mode

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git commit -m"Executable!"

[master (root-commit) 1f7a57a] Executable!

 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 create mode 100755 foo.sh

Now we have a single commit with a single executable file.