From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:16:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin has trustable filemode
Message-ID: <7vtxjquzqm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <51E982D0.5040505@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> Related: Should we have separate settings for 1.5 and 1.7 for several
> variables? Conflicts I see not reflected in config.mak.uname on pu:
>     trustable filemode   (1.7 has, 1.5 does not)
>     MMAP/Pread (1.7 pread is thread safe, 1.5 I dont think was, MMAP
> utility is convolved in this)
>     regex - 1.7 is broken, per Ramsay 1.5 works
>
> If you think its worth it, I'll create a patch series with the above
> and justifications for the different settings that I know.

I'd say that would be a sensible thing to do, given that the
alternative seems to be "let's drop 1.5 support right now, because
otherwise we cannot run Git on 1.7".