On 12/1/06, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
Of course it is. It's just that the problem is not solved yet, and if -a becomes git-commit's default a simple git-commit will be a real annoying thing.
> If you about to change the behavior, 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?
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