Wrong permissions when cloning a Git repository using Cygwin

Fri Jun 14 21:22:00 GMT 2013

On 6/14/2013 5:10 PM, Thomas Deinhamer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>> when I run "git clone URL" on the mintty terminal in the Cygwin
> environment on a Windows Server 2008 network share some directories
> have wrong permissions set (i.e. groups are missing).
>> Most of the directories have the correct groups and permissions
> assigned, but some of them (it seems mostly the directories which
> are further down in the hierarchy) are missing some groups.
>> Unfortunately I don't have any screenshots right now.
>> I was wondering what the cause for this could be? Is it a
> Cygwin problem or a Git problem? Does it maybe belong to
> the length of the path - because it does not affect directories
> in the upper levels of the hierarchy, but only directories beyond
> the fourth or fifth directory level?!
>> What I actually do on the mintty terminal is this:
>> > cd //servername
> > cd path/to/project/
> > git clone URL .
>> If I clone the Git repository using e.g. TortoiseGit,
> which is integrated into the Windows Explorer Context-Menu,
> permissions and groups of the cloned repository are fine.
>> Please feel free to ask if you need any additional information
> about this issue - I'd be really happy to fix this problem.
>> Thanks a lot in advance for help on this!

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