Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> writes:
>> The first sentence says what happens, as it should.
>>
>> But it is not directly clear what makes the executable bit differ
>> and when it is a useful thing to ignore the differences, so the
>> second sentence that says "This may be useful" does not give the
>> reader very much.
>>
> Clearly a major improvement.
>
> Does this (still) include the original line
> "See linkgit:git-update-index[1]"
>
> which helps the user to add *.sh files "executable" to the index, even if
> core.filemode is false ?
Thanks for catching; I omitted the reference by accident.
Perhaps end that sentence like this instead?
... may be necessary to set this variable to `false`, and
maintain the executable bit with `git update-index --chmod`
(see linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
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