Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Oct 08, 2005 20:51:55 +0200:

quoted

... It seems that cygwin overrides the previous modes and sets the
executable bit. git-reset doesn't fix it. Can this even be fixed
then?

A few examples below ...

jonas@cygwin /usr/local/dev/git/git
$ git reset
Documentation/sort_glossary.pl: needs update
t/lib-read-tree-m-3way.sh: needs update

I do not have an access to Cygwin environment so cannot be of
help on this directly, but 'git reset' without flags defaults
"--mixed" and leaves the modified files intact.  Maybe hard
reset would help here, but the real solution is to figure out
why these files acquired the extra executable bits in the first
place.

These are not real attributes, cygwin emulates them from the names,
like .exe will always be 0755, for example.