From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: most commonly used git commands? Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:14:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20070630131428.GA2866@steel.home> References: <20070625064017.GA2839@mellanox.co.il> <7vlke833wr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <20070625071752.GB15343@mellanox.co.il> <81b0412b0706280152g5cbd777y76757d9c608ea483@mail.gmail.com> <4683BDA5.996874EF@eudaptics.com> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 30 15:14:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4cme-0000yQ-Kq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:14:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756056AbXF3NOc (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756048AbXF3NOc (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:14:32 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.189]:38951 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756007AbXF3NOb (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:14:31 -0400 Received: from tigra.home (Fc956.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.201.86]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo6) (RZmta 7.6) with ESMTP id z03dcbj5UBUtVV ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:14:29 +0200 (MEST) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1139F277BD; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:14:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC4AFC164; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:14:28 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-RZG-AUTH: z4gQVF2k5XWuW3CcuQaFzA3k6g== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jun 28, 2007 16:07:17 +0200: > > No. It was meant as Alex said it. Windows (MinGW) doesn't understand > > "chmod a+x blub". > > Yes, I suspected that. But I don't see a need for it on Windows (MinGW) to > begin with. > But it is necessary on Windows (Cygwin): chmod(2) with mode set to 0644 will happily take execute permission from an .com, .bat, .cmd, .pl, .exe or .dll file. Which means something different on Windows, but results in unexpectedly (for a Windows user) looking errors. The users there do not expect seeing an .exe-file but be not able to run it.