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Re: Gitk/Cygwin bug: phony local changes

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HKHannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Date
Oct 28, 2008, 16:04 UTC
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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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?
It seems to fix the problem.

Something I forgot to mention in the previous mail: the problem occurs whether I have core.fileMode set to true or false.

-- 
Hannu
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