Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

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> On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Reece Dunn wrote:
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> > You pull a repository that contains executable scripts that are
> > required to work in order to build the system. You then make some
> > modifications to the local repository and run the 'git add .' command.
> > Since this patch is reporting executable bits differently, the mode
> > change is stored as well as the local modifications. Now the changes
> > are pushed upstream (along with the file mode changes).
> >
> > Someone running a Linux machine, pulls your changes. When those files
> > are checked out, the executable state of those scripts has now
> > changed, preventing the Linux user from running those scripts. _That_
> > is what I meant. Or am I misunderstanding how git works in this case?
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> This is what "git config core.fileMode false" is for.  See git-
> config's man page for information (or Documentation/config.txt).
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> We already have a way to tell git that the "executable bit" is
> worthless, and any Windows port should use it.