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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please make hooks installed executable either on all platforms or on no platforms at all
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:40:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090216024056.GA18780@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090216T022127-960@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:24:51AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:

> In http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00260.html Eric Blake
> pointed out that on Cygwin, /usr/share/git-core/templates are
> installed with executable permissions; whereas on Linux, they are
> installed without.  This is inconsistent.  Could you please make it so
> they are installed executable on *all* platforms or on *no* platforms?

That message is old. Templates are now always installed with the
executable bit set on all platforms, but with a '.sample' suffix. This
makes the behavior consistent whether or not the platform supports
executable bits properly.

This happened in June of 2008, and shipped in git v1.6.0.

Some discussion is here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86080/focus=86188

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-16  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-16  2:24 Please make hooks installed executable either on all platforms or on no platforms at all Jason Spiro
2009-02-16  2:40 ` Jeff King [this message]

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