Re: [PATCH] add: add --chmod=+x / --chmod=-x options

Edward Thomson [off-list ref] writes:

However I do not think that this is a common enough action that it needs
to be made automatic such that when I `git add foo.rb` it is
automatically made executable.  I think that the reduced complexity of
having a single mechanism to control executability (that being the
execute mode in the index or a tree) is preferable to a gitattributes
based mechanism, at least until somebody else makes a cogent argument
that the gitattributes approach would be helpful for them.  :)

It wasn't a "having to specify it every time sucks; you must do this
way instead" at all.  I was just gauging if it would be a viable idea
for a follow-up series to complement your patch.

Thanks.