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From:	Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:23:22 -0400
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On 9/25/2015 11:01 AM, Walter L. wrote:
> On 24/09/2015 07:35, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>> > 2) The 'touch' command creates a file with the executable bit set
>> >
>> > [user AT hostname ~]$ touch newfile.txt
>> > [user AT hostname ~]$ ls -l newfile.txt
>> > -rwxrwx---+ 1 user Domain Users 0 Sep 22 17:21 newfile.txt
>>
>> It likely depends on the inherited permissions from the directory
>
> BINGO! Looks like starting 1.7.34 the file permissions were "fixed" to
> exhibit this new behavior
> (https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html). After
> reverting back to 1.7.33 I was able to get the previous behavior back.
>
> This is very unfortunate because I'm using Git in Cygwin specifically
> because it doesn't set the executable bit like Windows applications.
> With this new behavior, trying to rebase or cherry-pick causes merge
> conflicts because any file touched by Git will have the executable bit
> set. Additionally, trying to do a 'reset --hard' doesn't work anymore
> since the executable bit stays on with the new file permission behavior,
> so you'll never really return to the previous state.
>
> Yes, I can always set 'filemode=false' to ignore file permissions, but I
> still want to be able to enforce the correct file mode upon commits.
> Suggestions?

I think you misunderstood what Marco was saying.  If the problem is 
caused by the default ACL on the directory, you could fix that ACL.

Ken


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