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Re: Possible issue with newest version of git (v 2.8) under Cygwin
- From: andrew stern <astern dot fix8 dot forum at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 09:59:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Possible issue with newest version of git (v 2.8) under Cygwin
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>I'm not sure I understand what you're seeing: if your repository is already set up with core.filemode set to false, Git won't check the executable flag on the files. What leads you to think the speed slow-down is related to >checking whether the file is executable?
>If setting cygexec makes a noticable speed difference even with core.filemode false, I can only conclude the problem is somewhere below Git and related to how the Cygwin DLL provides file access.
>FWIW, having just checked the Cygwin user guide's fstab instructions[0], the noacl setting should be ignored on NFS filesystems; if you're seeing that make a difference, that looks like a bug.
I tried a clone and pull both with the noacl and without the noacl. In
my experiment without the noacl it was much faster when doing pulls
after someone else checked in changes. I located on the web a
reference to noacl being slow when doing a stat under cygwin and
figured if I prevent reading each file it might be faster so I went to
my noacl directory and did a pull of their changes after adding the
cygexec flag after the noacl flag. Instead of being tens of minutes
it was just a bit over a minute and a half. Although the repository
is on a NFS drive the local file system is NTFS and I see it spending
lots of time doing the update on the merge even though it is just a
couple of files that have changed. I'm still trying to figure out
what exactly is going on and how best to deal with the permissioning
issue that we are now experiencing. After discussions we would rather
have it slow then have bad permission problems but I'd rather not have
either issue.
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.
It also leaves the permissions looking like this
Deny NULL SID Special
not Inherited
Allow User Special
not Inherited
Deny dev group Traverse folder...
not Inherited
Deny Authenticated Users Traverse folder...
not Inherited
Deny SYSTEM Traverse folder...
not Inherited
Deny Administrators for machine Traverse folder...
not Inherited
Deny Users for machine Traverse folder...
not Inherited
Allow dev group Read & execute
not Inherited
Allow Authenticated Users Read, Write & execute not Inherited
Allow SYSTEM Read, Write & execute
not Inherited
Allow Administrators for machine Read, Write & execute not Inherited
Allow Users for machine Read & execute
not Inherited
Allow Everyone Read
not Inherited
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