On 2014-10-01 19.10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Perhaps I completely misunderstand the meaning of core.filemode but I
>> thought it determined whether Git cared about changes in file
>> properties?
>
> By setting it to "false", you tell Git that the filesystem you
> placed the repository does not correctly represent the filemode
> (especially the executable bit).
>
> "core.fileMode" in "git config --help" reads:
>
> core.fileMode
> If false, the executable bit differences between the
> index and the working tree are ignored; useful on broken
> filesystems like FAT. See git-update- index(1).
Out of my head: Could the following be a starting point:
core.fileMode
If false, the executable bit differences between the
index and the working tree are ignored.
This may be usefull when visiting a cygwin repo with a non-cygwin
Git client. (should we mention msysgit ? should we mention JGit/EGit ?)
This may even be useful for a repo on a SAMBA network mount,
which may show all file permissions as 0755.
See git-update-index(1) for changing the executable bit in the index.
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1)
will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate
when the repository is created.
>
> Maybe our documentation is not clear enough. A contribution from
> somebody new to Git we would appreciate would be to point out which
> part of these sentences are unclear; that way, people can work on
> improving its phrasing.
>
> Thanks.
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