Ramsay Jones <ram...@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes: >> + git checkout -b mode initial && >> + git update-index --chmod=+x file0 && > > would 'test_chmod +x file0 &&' work here?
This one wants to set +x only in the index, leaving the working tree version without the executable bit. test_chmod is about setting both, so it would do something different from what we want to do here.
