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Re: git status showing phantom modifications

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MLMichael Ludwig <michael.ludwig@xing.com>
Date
Jan 28, 2010, 08:45 UTC
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Am 27.01.2010 um 08:20 schrieb Johannes Sixt:
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> One more thing to try is:
> 
>  core.ignorecygwinfstricks = false
> 
> This turns off some stat() optimizations on Cygwin.

The above setting causes the phantom modifications to disappear, regardless of an *explicit* setting of core.filemode as reported in one of my previous mails on this thread.

So thanks, it works okay for me. Still, it's not clear what's happening.

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