Tian Yuchen [off-list ref] writes:

The 'core.filemode' (stored as 'trust_executable_bit') configuration
act as a core filesystem capability flag.

This unfortunately hasn't heard any responses since June 19th.  Are
there remaining issues with it?  Or do people fundamentally have
objections against this change?  Or things are too busy in general
that there are more patches than there are folks willing to review
them?