From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:26:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Copying Git repository from Linux to Windows.
Message-ID: <BANLkTik+oUb1QpVTwJfB30_8FsW=4ZVTxA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DF891CC.1040700@st.com>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 04:10 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> BTW. what filesystem do you use?
>>
>
> It was FAT on memory stick as FAT is also there in Windows PC.
> More observation: All files marked modified had only changes in file permissions.
> i.e. 755 instead of 644. chmod doesn't work with FAT so can't change there permissions
> now.
>
> Problem is not only for symlinks but standard c files too.

Sounds like you should try "git config core.filemode false":

"core.fileMode:
     If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT"

(from from http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html)