From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:31:35 GMT
Subject: Re: No fchmod() under msygit - Was: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Add submodule test harness
Message-ID: <CABPQNSY5x_JOsxyKn7xZ9nc5TJ0yHdNvam0htyX01U58bvV7vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140709200046.GB17454@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
>> (And why is it  "& 07777" and not  "& 0777")
>
> This is to preserve the uncommon sticky/sgid/suid bits.  Probably not
> needed, but better to keep as much intact as possible.
>
>> Can we avoid the fchmod()  all together ?
>
> For single-user systems, sure.
>
> For multi-user systems with git-imap-send users and passwords in
> $GIT_CONFIG, I suggest not.

You're saying this as if Windows is a single-user system. It's not,
but it uses ACLs rather than POSIX permissions to manage file-system
permissions. So far we've opted to ignore ACLs in Git for Windows,
though.