Re: [PATCH] git-init: don't base core.filemode on the ability to chmod.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 08:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vir5nb89d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071004071751.GD20800@admingilde.org>

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

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> hoi :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:23:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> filemode = !( (st1.st_mode & S_IXUSR)
>>         	/* we did not ask for x-bit -- bogus FS */
>> 	    || chmod(path, st1.st_mode & S_IXUSR)
>>         	/* it does not let us flip x-bit -- bogus FS */
>> 	    || lstat(path, &st2)
>>         	/* it does not let us read back -- bogus FS */
>> 	    || (st1.st_mode == st2.st_mode)
>> 	        /* it forgets we flipped -- bogus FS */
>> 	    );
>
> that looks good.

FWIW, I did not mean it to be an example for preferred indentation nor code layout, but as a better way to explain what the logic is computing.

I do not think git on Cygwin nor WinGit creates $GIT_DIR/config with executable bit set. Is this pretty much a workaround only for vfat-on-Linux ?