On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> wrote: > ...the native windows git is compiled with a flag that > states that the x bit is unreliable (which, in general, Windows apps are > so lousy with their handling of the x bit on NTFS, and it is impossible to > track x bit on FAT, is probably the right thing). Â Meanwhile, the cygwin > git is compiled to respect the x bit, because cygwin does a better job of > properly managing x bits on NTFS, and doing a better job of a reasonable > fake of the x bit on FAT.
Eric -- thanks for the illumination! :) Now I wonder whether respecting the x bit can be a configurable option in git, or Windows native folks can make it such, or you can make it such? Now that we have two sets of gits, and a Visual Studio plugin from Git Extensions using the native one, there's a benefit to being able to ignore the x difference when desirable. Cheers, Alexy -- 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/
