-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/9/2007 11:07 AM: > And yet another, which I have been considering doing the next time I package > git (right now, I'm kind of waiting for git 1.5.3 to come out),
1.5.3 is out, so I'm in the middle of packaging it. > is to override > the upstream git's decision that on cygwin, the templates installed > in /usr/share/git-core/templates are installed with executable permissions; > whereas on Linux, they are installed without. In other words, _somebody_ > (not > me) thought that because windows permissions can't be relied on, that ALL git > hooks should be enabled by default; And that somebody is.... setup.exe. The tar file has the correct non-executable permissions, but setup.exe insists on giving the files full executable permissions, perhaps because they start with #!. So I'm adding a postinstall that undoes the damage. > whereas on Linux, where permissions are > reliable, ALL git hooks are disabled by default and you must chmod +x them to > turn them on. This seems inconsistent to me, but not to the point that I > have > complained upstream on the git mailing list; perhaps you'd like to raise the > point there? Not an upstream bug after all. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG3MpU84KuGfSFAYARAl+5AKCASnJtpF1NyLOZk6BRKlOMgHgAugCggB56 2KmMFb7BTPR6yNVOYFXjBJE= =JSN2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
