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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Eric Blake on 8/9/2007 11:07 AM:
>> And yet another, which I have been considering doing the next time I package 
>> git (right now, I'm kind of waiting for git 1.5.3 to come out),
> 
> 1.5.3 is out, so I'm in the middle of packaging it.
> 
>> is to override 
>> the upstream git's decision that on cygwin, the templates installed 
>> in /usr/share/git-core/templates are installed with executable permissions; 
>> whereas on Linux, they are installed without.  In other words, _somebody_ (not 
>> me) thought that because windows permissions can't be relied on, that ALL git 
>> hooks should be enabled by default;
> 
> And that somebody is.... setup.exe.  The tar file has the correct
> non-executable permissions, but setup.exe insists on giving the files full
> executable permissions, perhaps because they start with #!.  So I'm adding
> a postinstall that undoes the damage.
> 

<snip>

I thought that this was just a Windows-ism.  Windows likes files to be
executable so that you can invoke the application that is associated with
a file just by typing the name at a command line (or other method for
invoking CreateProcess()).  'setup.exe' uses the Windows permission model
to untar files.  Until/if 'setup.exe' gains support for Cygwin's ntsec
abilities, resetting the permissions after the fact makes sense.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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