From: Alex Riesen Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:14:28 GMT Subject: Re: most commonly used git commands? Message-ID: <20070630131428.GA2866@steel.home> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jun 28, 2007 16:07:17 +0200: > > No. It was meant as Alex said it. Windows (MinGW) doesn't understand > > "chmod a+x blub". > > Yes, I suspected that. But I don't see a need for it on Windows (MinGW) to > begin with. > But it is necessary on Windows (Cygwin): chmod(2) with mode set to 0644 will happily take execute permission from an .com, .bat, .cmd, .pl, .exe or .dll file. Which means something different on Windows, but results in unexpectedly (for a Windows user) looking errors. The users there do not expect seeing an .exe-file but be not able to run it.