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Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2005, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20051009130253.GA14237@steel.home>
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Junio C Hamano, Sun, Oct 09, 2005 01:36:17 +0200:
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> > These are not real attributes, cygwin emulates them from the names,
> > like .exe will always be 0755, for example.
> 
> Ouch.  Is this true in general, or only on FAT-derived
> filesystems?
>

Before they are chmod'ed by cygwin (with chmod): probably everywhere on windows (I'm sure about vfat, were chmod wont help at all). Even if you can save user (unix) attributes somewhere, initial clone will still always have this problem.

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Message 18 of 18 in “Seeing various mode changes on cygwin”
  1. Jonas FonsecaOct 8, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  3. Alex RiesenOct 8, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsOct 9, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 9, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  9. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  11. Add ".git/config" file parserLinus Torvalds, Oct 10, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 10, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  16. Use core.filemode.Junio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinOct 9, 2005
  18. Alex RiesenOct 9, 2005

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