From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:13:01 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2013, #07; Sun, 21)
Message-ID: <51EDBC7D.7060200@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy58zozdk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

 
> ml/cygwin-updates:
>      cygwin: stop forcing core.filemode=false

I like that: cygwin behaves more like Unix/Linux.

Just a side-comment: When working on NTFS, cygwin
will set core.filemode=true, and as a result of that,
the "cheating lstat" code is not used any more.

So it is not run under the test suite (typically NTFS),
and therefore "untested by default".

> * rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat (2013-07-18) 1 commit
>  - cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation
 
>  I am personally in favor of this simpler solution.  Comments?
Me too, thanks to all contributors