When you setup WP you (the webserver) may need write access to the files. So the access rights may need to be loose. chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let Apache be owner find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; # Change directory permissions rwxr-xr-x find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; … Read more
The other answers are correct, in that chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. But why on earth would you want to? It might make sense for the directories, but why set the execute bit on all the files? I suspect what you really want to do … Read more
Try: git config core.fileMode false From git-config(1): core.fileMode Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree is to be honored. Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on. git-clone(1) or git-init(1) probe … Read more