Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

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

Ouch.  Is this true in general, or only on FAT-derived
filesystems?

We may need to worry about this on the core side after all.
Some people need to mount FAT even on Linux systems, 

I think we might want to have a flag that says "don't care about 
filesystem modes". That should be pretty easy, I think we'd get most of 
them by just adding some logic to "ce_match_stat()".

Then add a "git chmod" to set the mode in the index (which should end up 
being just a wrapper around the regular "git-update-index" using the 
"--cacheinfo" flag, I think).

Those parts should be trivial.

The more interesting issue is how to set the _flag_ that we should do 
this. We may have to add a config file, and it should be per-repository 
(ie something like ".git/config" or ".git/info/config"). Or do we just do 
yet another environment variable?

		Linus