From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:27:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitk/Cygwin bug: phony local changes
Message-ID: <81b0412b0810280827o2ccca3bfw127877782f5a0909@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <837i7s3ga4.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>

2008/10/28 Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>:

> I used bisect to find which commit introduced this bug and the
> result is:
>
> 7faee6b8de836904227ee98dc3d2c4c75b0ef3a1 is first bad commit
> commit 7faee6b8de836904227ee98dc3d2c4c75b0ef3a1
> Author: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 13 00:33:31 2008 -0400
>
>    compat/cygwin.c - Use cygwin's stat if core.filemode == true
>

Could you try the patch from Junio's "Re: [PATCH] Only update the
cygwin-related configuration during state auto-setup" mail and see
if it changes anything?