Normally only mods 644 or 755 are stored by git.
These scripts will automatically store and restore the file mods.
Hooks are created for commit and checkout.
So after a pull a checkout command is required to restore the file mods.
Add this file .git/hooks/pre-commit into the local git repo.
#!/bin/bash
#
# A hook script called by "git commit" with no arguments. The hook should
# exit with non-zero status after issuing an appropriate message if it wants
# to stop the commit.
SELF_DIR=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
DATABASE=$SELF_DIR/.permissions
# Clear the permissions database file
> $DATABASE
echo -n "Backing-up file permissions..."
IFS_OLD=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'
for FILE in `git ls-files`
do
# Save the permissions of all the files in the index
echo $FILE";"`stat -c "%a;%U;%G" $FILE` >> $DATABASE
done
IFS=$IFS_OLD
# Add the permissions database file to the index
git add $DATABASE
echo "OK"
Add this file .git/hooks/post-checkout into the local git repo.
#!/bin/bash
SELF_DIR=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
DATABASE=$SELF_DIR/.permissions
echo -n "Restoring file permissions..."
IFS_OLD=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'
while read -r LINE || [[ -n "$LINE" ]];
do
FILE=`echo $LINE | cut -d ";" -f 1`
PERMISSIONS=`echo $LINE | cut -d ";" -f 2`
USER=`echo $LINE | cut -d ";" -f 3`
GROUP=`echo $LINE | cut -d ";" -f 4`
# Set the file permissions
chmod $PERMISSIONS $FILE
# Set the file owner and groups
chown $USER:$GROUP $FILE
done < $DATABASE
IFS=$IFS_OLD
echo "OK"
exit 0