From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:52:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable post-checkout test on Cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0903170926p4f2d536el2b96a71c79c0159e@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> It is broken because of the tricks we have to play with
> lstat to get the bearable perfomance out of the call.
> Sadly, it disables access to Cygwin's executable attribute,
> which Windows filesystems do not have at all.

Hmm, perhaps when checking hooks to see if they are executable, Cygwin
port should avoid using the "tricks"?  Compared to paths inside the
worktree the number of hooks is a lot smaller, no?