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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:52:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612011052.48784.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0611300914u521a5351idde23618c2fbf017@mail.gmail.com>

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

-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 12:59 [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically Andy Parkins
2006-11-30 13:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-30 13:24   ` [PATCH] " Andy Parkins
2006-11-30 13:32     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-30 13:41       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-30 15:01       ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-30 15:43         ` Salikh Zakirov
2006-11-30 16:28         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-01 10:59           ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-30 15:34   ` [PATCH/RFC] " Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-30 17:14 ` Alex Riesen
2006-12-01 10:52   ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2006-12-01 13:07     ` Alex Riesen
2006-12-01 15:17       ` Andy Parkins

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