Re: git fast-export not preserving executable permissions?

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

Hi Doug,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:36:31AM -0400, Doug Glidden wrote:
> Hello Git world!
>
> I have run into an issue that I cannot seem to resolve with git
> fast-export. When running a fast-export on a repo that contains
> scripts with executable permissions (e.g. a gradlew script), the
> resulting export does not properly reflect the executable permissions
> on the script files.

Interesting. fast-import and fast-export both understand executable
modes (although Git only understands the modes 644 and 755 for blobs),
so this should be working.

I can not reproduce the issue as-is. Round-tripping a fast-import and
fast-export preserves executable bits for me:

  #!/bin/bash

  set -e

  rm -rf repo client

  git init -q repo
  git init -q client

  (
    cd repo
    printf "x" >x
    printf "y" >y
    chmod +x x
    git add x y
    git commit -q -m "initial commit"
  )

  git -C repo fast-export HEAD | git -C client fast-import

  diff -u <(git -C repo ls-tree HEAD) <(git -C client ls-tree HEAD)

> To illustrate this issue, I created a small sample repo, with one
> executable file and one non-executable file. From the output below,
> you can see that the mode in the output from fast-export is the same
> for both files; according to the documentation for fast-import, the
> mode for the executable file should be 100755 instead of 100644.
>
>     $ ls -gG
>     total 2
>     -rwxr-xr-x 1 106 Apr 29 09:13 executable_script.sh*
>     -rw-r--r-- 1  63 Apr 29 09:12 non_executable_file.txt
>
>     $ git fast-export --all
>     blob
>     mark :1
>     data 106
>     #!/bin/bash
>
>     # This is a shell script that should be executable.
>     echo 'The script executed successfully!'
>
>     blob
>     mark :2
>     data 63
>     This file is a simple text file that should not be executable.
>
>     reset refs/heads/dev
>     commit refs/heads/dev
>     mark :3
>     author Doug <41mortimer@gmail.com> 1588167102 -0400
>     committer Doug <41mortimer@gmail.com> 1588167102 -0400
>     data 25
>     Adding some sample files
>     M 100644 :1 executable_script.sh
>     M 100644 :2 non_executable_file.txt
>
> Please let me know if there is any further information I can provide
> about this issue.

Does Git think that the file is executable? Please run 'git ls-tree
HEAD' to find out.

> Thank you,
> Doug

Thanks,
Taylor