Re: Please make hooks installed executable either on all platforms or on no platforms at all

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:24:51AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:

In http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00260.html Eric Blake
pointed out that on Cygwin, /usr/share/git-core/templates are
installed with executable permissions; whereas on Linux, they are
installed without.  This is inconsistent.  Could you please make it so
they are installed executable on *all* platforms or on *no* platforms?

That message is old. Templates are now always installed with the
executable bit set on all platforms, but with a '.sample' suffix. This
makes the behavior consistent whether or not the platform supports
executable bits properly.

This happened in June of 2008, and shipped in git v1.6.0.

Some discussion is here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86080/focus=86188

-Peff