Re: [PATCH 17/19] mingw: fix git-svn tests that expect chmod to work

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2016, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwpqwck5f.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601251910080.2964@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> This is my fault: there are two MINGW prereqs, and they guard against
> trying to work with file names ending in a dot (which is illegal on
> Windows' file systems).

Ahh, I failed to notice that MINGW was protecting against the "dot" thing. So I was wrong; that one cannot be !POSIXPERM.

Thanks for clarifying.

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