Beta Branch Any reason why centmin.sh isn't executable by default?

Is there any reason why centmin.sh isn't executable by the user by default?

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Git tracks file/folder permissions, so if I pull down the git repo, then make the file executable, then resync with git it keeps saying there's changes, even though the only thing I did was change file permissions.

It's a simple change--you can see it here on my fork: Made centmin.sh executable by user · jeffwidman/centminmod@7fbd0b8 · GitHub

Now git and ansible are both happy and report no changes unless I actually edit the code.

Is there a security reason or something else why this hasn't been done already?

 

Afraid I'm not familiar with Windows file permissions--if you made it executable on a unix box (linux/osx), then committed the file so the permissions change, would editing it on windows cause the permissions to revert?

 

Nice!
The other way to do it is you can change the file permissions on Linux (I'm happy to do it as a pull request) and then whenever you work on the file in Sourcetree, just don't stage that particular section of the file (Sourcetree makes it easy to only commit sections of a file, not all changes).