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Windows with Cygwin or WSL git file permissions

12 March, 2019

When using native Windows Git client along with WSL or Cygwin Git clients, there can be nuisance dirty repo messages like:

old mode 100755
new mode 100644

This problem is easily resolved as follows, for each Git client you use as below:

  • Cygwin
  • Window Subsystem for Linux
  • native Windows
git config --global core.filemode false
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