Means to *ignore* changes to of execute bit?

[Michael Hudson]

Brian de Alwis wrote:
> Is there any way to cause changes to the execute bit to be ignored? 
> I've searched, but not found anything.
> 
> My usecase: I use vmware to develop in VisualStudio, and mount my file
> system remotely, but do everything else from MacOSX.  Something
> somewhere is helpfully turning on the execute bit for any file that has
> been touched.
> 
> My workaround for now is to do a `find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0
> chmod a-x' before every commit.

Well, you could do that in a pre-commit hook, at least :)

Cheers,
mwh