Subject: Re: ignoring file modes completely

From: Rafael Kitover <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:29:56 -0500

On 2/6/2011 1:10 PM, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:14:30AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>> $ git diff HEAD
>> diff --git a/README b/README
>> old mode 100644
>> new mode 100755
>> $ git config --global core.filemode
>> false
>
> This is because core.filemode is set in the local configuration:
> $ git config core.filemode
> true
>
> Git automatically detects if chmod(2) is supported on the current file
> system and sets core.filemode to the corresponding value. Because cygwin
> emulates chmod(), git sets core.filemode to true.

That was it! Thank you very much. I can now use msysGit and Cygwin git 
together, very cool.