Re: [PATCH] xfstests: Fix some file permission.

[Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 04:05 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:57:23PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > This looks good to me but I'd like a second opinion,
> > > to make sure there's no reason any of these should
> > > be non-executable.
> > 
> > I don't think it matters. Consistency is good, though, and we've
> > taken patches like this in the past.
> 
> Yeah.  Btw, I'm not sure git-am can apply the mode changes from a patch,
> in the worst case you might have to do the chmod calls manually.
> 

Just a follow-up...  "git am" *does* do the right thing with
a git-generated patch that describes changes to modes only.
(But "patch" and "quilt" of course just think it's garbage.)

I've committed this change to the xfstests-dev tree on kernel.org
and will push it out to oss next time I update that tree (most
likely later this week).

                                        -Alex