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 -- 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