Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: correct behavior for is_executable on Windows

From: Heiko Voigt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:35:43 +0200

Hi Junio,

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 07:02:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > My preference is to remove "static int is_executable()" function
> > from help.c, have an...
> > ... I wouldn't mind seeing the implementation of posix_is_executable()
> > in help.c, which will be dead-code on Windows and Cygwin, if that
> > makes linking and Makefile easier.
> 
> An outline of such a change might look like this.

Thanks for the outline and the clarification, I will use it to cook up
something.

Cheers Heiko