Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2013, #07; Sun, 21)

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:13:01 +0200

> ml/cygwin-updates:
>      cygwin: stop forcing core.filemode=false

I like that: cygwin behaves more like Unix/Linux.

Just a side-comment: When working on NTFS, cygwin
will set core.filemode=true, and as a result of that,
the "cheating lstat" code is not used any more.

So it is not run under the test suite (typically NTFS),
and therefore "untested by default".

> * rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat (2013-07-18) 1 commit
>  - cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation
 
>  I am personally in favor of this simpler solution.  Comments?
Me too, thanks to all contributors