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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Odd Difference Between Windows Git and Standard Git
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:12:07 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 20 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for asking a great question.  I somehow expected that we
> > probe in init-db.c::create_default_files() for this when we probe
> > for case sensitivity, symlinks, etc., but apparently we don't.
> 
> Ah, we do probe by using "config" as a guinea pig file.
> 
> Of course, if you are doing network mount between systems with and
> without filemode support, the result would depend on where you did
> the "git init", so that would not help.
> 
> Which means that other probed things like symlink support and case
> sensitivity are likely to be wrong in the .git/config that the user
> may want to fix.

What we could do is to make the default config setting platform-dependent,
a la CRLF_NATIVE.

I imagine that we would want this for core.filemode, core.ignorecase and
core.symlinks.

What do you think?

Ciao,
Johannes