Showing posts with label change file permissions in Git. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change file permissions in Git. Show all posts

How to change file permissions in Git on Windows?

From windows 7 environment, After  created a build.sh file and pushed it to original, but the project's build failed: ./build.sh: Permission denied. The cause is this build.sh doesn't have execute permission. So I need to add +x permission to it, on windows?

Solution:

As we know, Git manages file permissions for each file in the repository, so we need to have the executable bit set for shell/bash files to make them executable in Linux System. But on windows, file permissions do not map to the Git file permissions, so it may be a bit hard to change the file permissions. Here are the steps:
  1. check current file permission:
    C:\Git\myProject>git ls-tree HEAD
    100644 blob 55c0287d4ef21f15b97eb1f107451b88b479bffe build.sh
  2. change it to 755:
    C:\Git\myProject>git update-index --chmod=+x build.sh
  3. commit our change:
    C:\Git\myProject>git commit -m "Changing file permissions"
    [master 77b171e] Changing file permissions 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) mode change 100644 => 100755 build.sh
  4. check permission again:
    C:\Git\myProject>git ls-tree HEAD
    100755 blob 55c0287d4ef21f15b97eb1f107451b88b479bffe build.sh
  5. push
    git push origin master

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