Re: [PATCH] init: don't reset core.filemode on git-new-workdirs.

I don't think this got any further attention?  I notice git-2.32 still
has the problem - in which case I re-commend my original patch.
Regards ---Madhu

*  Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] <xmqqr1k64bmk.fsf@gitster.g>
Wrote on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:39:31 -0700

Madhu [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Avoiding the filemode check completely during reinit is ok with me
because it gave me wrong results.  I can't speak for the original
author of the code - if his intention was to do it explicitly as part
of "reinitialization".

As the original author of the code, I know I meant filemode check to
be done and redone upon reinitialization in 4f629539 (init-db: check
template and repository format., 2005-11-25).

But then when 75d24499 (git-init: autodetect core.symlinks,
2007-08-31) started to autodetect symbolic link support, I somehow
ended up doing it only upon the repository creation.  Later,
2455406a (git-init: autodetect core.ignorecase, 2008-05-11) imitated
to check case sensitivity in the same block, doing it only once.

Either of these two commits would have been a good chance for us to
realize that filemode check should be done the same way, but somehow
nobody noticed X-<.