Issue
I've got the opposite problem from "How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?" I've got a file that I've changed executable permission on, but there are also some text changes, and I want to commit the former but not the latter. Is this possible with git?
(Actually, I've made some text changes I want to commit along with the executable permission change, and others I don't want to commit)
Update: Unstaging the text changes to the file, and then doing git add -p
again and incorporating some of the text changes managed to get the mode change
into staging. (My git version is 1.5.4.3)
Solution
git add -i will let you selectively add some hunks from a file to the index. I don't know whether or not it's sensitive to permissions, but if you were to add a hunk after the chmod operation, it might end up in the index correctly even without explicitly updating the permission.
Answered By - Bob Aman Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)
