Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:52:47 +0000

On Thursday 2006 November 30 17:14, Alex Riesen 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?

> If you about to change the behaviour, 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?

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE