From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:24:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwin
Message-ID: <7v1uyth0t9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DFA65F8.5010806@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:

> -#ifdef WIN32
> +#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
> +#if defined(__CYGWIN__)
> +if ((st.st_mode & S_IXUSR) == 0)
> +#endif
>  {	/* cannot trust the executable bit, peek into the file instead */
>  	char buf[3] = { 0 };
>  	int n;

This looks somewhat ugly.

I guess we could make the inner #if/#endif slightly more readable by
letting the compiler do more work, like this:

	#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
        if (!defined(__CYGWIN__) || !(st.st_mode & S_IXUSR)) {
        	...
	}
        #endif

I dunno.