Re: most commonly used git commands?

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Johannes Schindelin, Sat, Jun 30, 2007 16:31:48 +0200:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > 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):
> 
> I thought that on Cygwin, filemode=1? I mean, Cygwin _never_ had problems 
> with chmod under my fingers.
> 

Try doing stat(2) on file.txt which contains "#!/bin/sh" in its first
line and for which you have issued a chmod yet. Like a new file, or
like every file in a git-tracked directory after you did a fresh
checkout. Cygwin actually opens the files when doing stat(2), looks
inside and tries to guess if they are executable.

You should have said: "Cygwin _never_ had problems with chmod because
it cannot and didn't make it work". It is not just chmod, the other
side, stat, matters as well.