From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:02:53 GMT Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin Message-ID: <20051009130253.GA14237@steel.home> In-Reply-To: <7vzmpjoa32.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano, Sun, Oct 09, 2005 01:36:17 +0200: > > 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.