Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Reece Dunn wrote:

You pull a repository that contains executable scripts that are
required to work in order to build the system. You then make some
modifications to the local repository and run the 'git add .' command.
Since this patch is reporting executable bits differently, the mode
change is stored as well as the local modifications. Now the changes
are pushed upstream (along with the file mode changes).

Someone running a Linux machine, pulls your changes. When those files
are checked out, the executable state of those scripts has now
changed, preventing the Linux user from running those scripts. _That_
is what I meant. Or am I misunderstanding how git works in this case?

This is what "git config core.fileMode false" is for.  See git- 
config's man page for information (or Documentation/config.txt).

We already have a way to tell git that the "executable bit" is  
worthless, and any Windows port should use it.

~~ B