On Thursday 2006 November 30 17:14, Alex Riesen wrote: > The is dangerous on filesystems which lie to the programs about file > metadata. The "virtual filesystem" of cygwin is one of this kind: exec-bit > of the files depend > on its contents. Just calling git-commit -a will commit executability > at this particular > moment. For whatever reason, disabling handling of the exec-mode in gits > config does not work. Surely this is a separate fault? > If you about to change the behaviour, provide at least a config option > to go back > to the old git-commit, which didn't do any magic. Wasn't the whole point of this to avoid needing another config option? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html