X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49EFD328.6070000@byu.net> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:32:08 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, deliverable@gmail.com Subject: Re: Cygwin git and Windows native Git differ on flipping permissions References: <7c737f300904221917g5593fd52j90394a9b66d3b914@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7c737f300904221917g5593fd52j90394a9b66d3b914@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Alexy Khrabrov on 4/22/2009 8:17 PM: > -- which come with a Windows-native Git and git-gui. Strangely, the > gui shows that permissions of lots of things changed from 100755 to > 100644.When I agree and add and commit that in the windows gui, back > on cygwin, git status suddently complains that the permissions changed > from 100644 to 100755! Why this weirdness? Probably because the native windows git is compiled with a flag that states that the x bit is unreliable (which, in general, Windows apps are so lousy with their handling of the x bit on NTFS, and it is impossible to track x bit on FAT, is probably the right thing). Meanwhile, the cygwin git is compiled to respect the x bit, because cygwin does a better job of properly managing x bits on NTFS, and doing a better job of a reasonable fake of the x bit on FAT. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknv0ygACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAntwCgkORaFpvj4UqPlhlXQCzjmqNd lzQAn0mGvhQV8LIy+mlyiX+aLQ4Ckoj+ =7rm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/