From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:49:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-init: don't base core.filemode on the ability to chmod.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710041345280.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vir5nb89d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not think git on Cygwin nor WinGit creates $GIT_DIR/config with 
> executable bit set.  Is this pretty much a workaround only for 
> vfat-on-Linux ?

I do not know precisely about Cygwin (a quick test on my USB stick shows 
that .git/config is created without the executable bit set), but in MSys 
plain files which start with a she-bang are automatically +x, while all 
other plain files are automatically -x (therefore this applies to 
.git/config).

Given these findings, I fail to see what the patch should achieve, as 
the first test (for -x) always succeeds...

Ciao,
Dscho