From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:36:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin
Message-ID: <20051008213612.GA5794@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyrbrgdw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Oct 08, 2005 20:51:55 +0200:
> > ... It seems that cygwin overrides the previous modes and sets the
> > executable bit. git-reset doesn't fix it. Can this even be fixed
> > then?
> >
> > A few examples below ...
> >
> > jonas@cygwin /usr/local/dev/git/git
> > $ git reset
> > Documentation/sort_glossary.pl: needs update
> > t/lib-read-tree-m-3way.sh: needs update
> 
> I do not have an access to Cygwin environment so cannot be of
> help on this directly, but 'git reset' without flags defaults
> "--mixed" and leaves the modified files intact.  Maybe hard
> reset would help here, but the real solution is to figure out
> why these files acquired the extra executable bits in the first
> place.

These are not real attributes, cygwin emulates them from the names,
like .exe will always be 0755, for example.