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Windows WSL git file permissions

12 March, 2019

When using native Windows Git client along with WSL Git, there can be nuisance dirty repo messages like:

old mode 100755
new mode 100644

This problem is resolved for each Git client by executing in each of native Windows and WSL:

git config --global core.filemode false
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