Re: [PATCH] diff: correct newline in summary for renamed files

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+     GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-06-26 00:06:00 +0000" &&
+     GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-06-26 00:06:00 +0000" &&
+     export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE GIT_COMMITTER_DATE &&
+     git checkout -b mode initial &&
+     git update-index --chmod=+x file0 &&

would 'test_chmod +x file0 &&' work here?

That is what I was looking for in my previous solution,
this one doesn't care about the on-disk things at all (regarding
the mode of files).

So I would argue that test_chmod may be overkill
(well we could drop the force flag from the following
checkout... not sure if that is a good trade off)