Re: Odd Difference Between Windows Git and Standard Git

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for asking a great question.  I somehow expected that we
> > probe in init-db.c::create_default_files() for this when we probe
> > for case sensitivity, symlinks, etc., but apparently we don't.
> 
> Ah, we do probe by using "config" as a guinea pig file.
> 
> Of course, if you are doing network mount between systems with and
> without filemode support, the result would depend on where you did
> the "git init", so that would not help.
> 
> Which means that other probed things like symlink support and case
> sensitivity are likely to be wrong in the .git/config that the user
> may want to fix.