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Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Walter L." <bournenoir at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:54:34 +0300
- Subject: Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version
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Greetings, Walter L.!
> My question was merely based on Andrey's statement that "This is
> configurable" (see above); I don't know what he meant and what "this" is,
> Git or Cygwin.
"This" being "Git", and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00072.html
> If by saying "This is configurable" he meant running
> 'setfacl -b' on the top-level directory, then I simply misunderstood his
> statement; I was just misinterpreting "configurable" meaning setting "noacl"
> or something like that to the file system or the environment.
The problem child here is Git that bindly assumes that there's no other
permissions than POSIX permissions, and no other executables than POSIX
executables.
Both statements aren't true for any given OS these days.
> Since there are usually more than one way to do something, I was just
> wondering if Andrey knew of another way to handle the permission issue by
> the way of some configuration setting.
I didn't, but I'm reading the list patiently, picking knowledge where I can.
Thanks to Adam. This solution came up relatively recently.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, September 27, 2015 12:48:33
Sorry for my terrible english...
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