Re: Git in GSoC 2014 Suggestion: core.filemode always false for cygwin

On 2014-02-25 16.41, Jeff King wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the right way to propose mini projects, but in case the answer is not no, may I suggest one:

Motivation, the problem: Since commit c28facd216b501d41ca76f "cygwin: stop forcing core.filemode=false" Git under cygwin initializes repos with core.filemode = true under NTFS

This allows a smooth workflow, when e.g. *.sh files are pushed and pulled between Cygwin, Linux/Unix or Mac OS.

However when I visit such a repo under Mingw, then Mingw reads core.filemode =true, but is unable to detect whether the X-bit is set, and reads it as not set.

Therefore "git status" thinks that e.g. all *.sh files have lost the executable bit, abd reports them as changed.

Proposal: Under Mingw, keep trust_executable_bit always false, regardless what core.filemode says. Activate NO_TRUSTABLE_FILEMODE in config.mak.uname for Mingw (currently it is not used to anything)

Keep the logic in init-db.c to initialize core.filemode = false under Mingw 

Language: C
Difficulty: easy