Changing File Mode permissions from 100755 to 100644 on GITHUB

Question

I changed permissions of some files locally and pushed it to GITHUB without having the config.FileMode flag = false in my gitconfig. So GIT Pushed the file mode changes but I want to revert those file mode changes from 100755 to 100644.I am using a MAC osx as my development environment. I don't want to use git reset --hard HEAD on my repository. Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

In my case just changing the permission manually from 755 to 644 worked and pushing it again to GITHUB.

chmod 644 <filename> 

GIT will list this file in the diff and you can simply commit and push it to your repository on GITHUB.

Answer 2

I changed permission of my files manually from 755 to 644 using the below mentioned command and pushed the files again.

chmod -x <file_name>

After pushing the files, I changed core.filemode config to false so that permission of other files don't get changed.