gradlew assemble permission denied

[kev-inc]

i am getting this error and i cant seem to figure out why. i was able to run the travis tests a few days ago but suddenly it stopped working

$ ./gradlew assemble
/home/travis/.travis/functions: line 315: ./gradlew: Permission denied
The command "eval ./gradlew assemble " failed. Retrying, 2 of 3.
/home/travis/.travis/functions: line 315: ./gradlew: Permission denied
The command "eval ./gradlew assemble " failed. Retrying, 3 of 3.
/home/travis/.travis/functions: line 315: ./gradlew: Permission denied
The command "eval ./gradlew assemble " failed 3 times.
The command "./gradlew assemble" failed and exited with 126 during .
Your build has been stopped.

[qjqqyy]

With reference to your commit kev-inc/main@4ae84a8

Note that you have removed executable bits on the file permissions in various files.

[kev-inc]

With reference to your commit kev-inc/main@4ae84a8

Note that you have removed executable bits on the file permissions in various files.

I don't think i intended to do this, may i know how did i end up doing this and how to rectify this?

[thomastanck]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=executable+bit+linux&t=ffab&ia=qa