"S_IFREG | mode" makes only sense for 0644 and 0755.
Even though doing (S_IFREG | mode) may not hurt when mode is any other
supported value, that is only true because S_IFREG mode bit happens to
be already on for S_IFLNK or S_IFGITLINK.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>