From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9832 invoked by alias); 14 May 2016 12:34:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9024 invoked by uid 89); 14 May 2016 12:34:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=lies, ordering, dinwoodie, Dinwoodie X-HELO: endymion.arp.harvard.edu Received: from endymion.arp.harvard.edu (HELO endymion.arp.harvard.edu) (140.247.179.94) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 14 May 2016 12:34:16 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.5] (pool-96-252-13-147.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [96.252.13.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by endymion.arp.harvard.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D07686C0043 for ; Sat, 14 May 2016 08:34:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Norton Allen Subject: Re: Possible issue with newest version of git (v 2.8) under Cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20160514120353.GH2345@dinwoodie.org> Message-ID: <57371B4A.1090708@huarp.harvard.edu> Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 12:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160514120353.GH2345@dinwoodie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00171.txt.bz2 On 5/14/2016 8:03 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> If I leave off the noacl and do a clone followed by a push and pull we >> >end up with the following error in the Windows security tab: >> > The permissions on file.cpp are incorrectly ordered, which may cause >> >some entries to be ineffective. > Yes, I've seen that before; it's a problem with the underlying > cygwind1.dll rather than a problem with Git. I believe the consensus > from people on this list who know more about Windows permissions than me > is that the warning is actually benign and can be ignored. As I read the Cygwin documentation, the problem is that windows permissions and POSIX permissions don't line up very well. In order to faithfully reproduce POSIX permissions, Cygwin uses legal but non-standard ordering of ACEs. Windows' security tab thinks this is a problem, but it really isn't. To quote from the documentation here: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files: Unfortunately the security tab in the file properties dialog of the Windows Explorer insists to rearrange the order of the ACEs to canonical order before you can read them. Thank God, the sort order remains unchanged if one presses the Cancel button. But don't even *think* of pressing OK... So it would seem the problem as such lies with Windows' security tab. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple