Re: t3701 fails if core.filemode disabled

Alex Riesen, Sun, May 18, 2008 22:01:21 +0200:

Jeff King, Sun, May 18, 2008 21:08:39 +0200:

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I don't mind disabling these tests if they don't make sense on certain
platforms, but regarding your specific proposal:

  - can you confirm that the test doesn't make sense, and not that it is
    simply broken on cygwin? Does changing your ~/.gitconfig's
    core.filemode make a difference? It shouldn't, but that could be
    a bug in test-lib. What happens if you run the test manually? Does
    git-add just not prompt for the mode change?

I setting core.filemode _inside_ the test breaks it in exactly the
same way (on Linux, I'm at home). I'll retest tomorrow

It is "git init" which sets core.filemode false (of course!)