From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable post-checkout test on Cygwin
Message-ID: <20090317203421.GB13458@blimp.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vprggqeh2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Tue, Mar 17, 2009 17:52:09 +0100:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > It is broken because of the tricks we have to play with
> > lstat to get the bearable perfomance out of the call.
> > Sadly, it disables access to Cygwin's executable attribute,
> > which Windows filesystems do not have at all.
> 
> Hmm, perhaps when checking hooks to see if they are executable, Cygwin
> port should avoid using the "tricks"?  Compared to paths inside the
> worktree the number of hooks is a lot smaller, no?

Yes, the damn thing is just hard to disable without ifdef in
builtin-db.c or builtin-clone.c