While setting up a small cron-driven script to cache a weather API’s JSON output for serving over Nginx, I run into trouble getting git to preserve the script’s executable bit between macOS and an Ubuntu VPS. After git update-index –chmod=+x fails and toggling the filemode config setting only seems to work by accident, the root cause turns out to be a forgotten fact: macOS does support Unix file permissions, so a plain chmod before committing solves it...
