X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-id: <4BBE432E.4000001@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:57:18 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.7.0.4-2, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.7.0.4-2 References: In-reply-to: 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 On 4/8/2010 4:50 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >> Therefore, this build turns those features back on. >> However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using >> FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file >> permissions very accurately. > > So I have stopped updating cygwin since the first time this message > appears because I am using git on FAT32 usb hard drives. What should > be the issues I could get? > I am using FAT32 because I have never been able to use ntfs without > permission problems when using the hard disk on another computer. What > else could I do? Switch to NTFS and set the permissions you need where you need them to the well-known SID of world/Everyone? See: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple