Evan:
  Yes. I expect you send the patch into this mail list. After I review and 
test, I will help push it into edk2-BaseTools-win32 repo. As you mention, this 
repo is still the mirror of svn. Any change in this repo will impact the mirror 
sync. So, we expect the patch to be applied.

Thanks
Liming
From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Evan 
Lloyd
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 9:13 PM
To: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>; edk2-devel (edk2-devel@lists.01.org) 
<edk2-de...@ml01.01.org>
Cc: Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2] File mode problem on Github edk2-BaseTools-win32

Hi Laszlo.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com]
>Sent: 11 November 2016 11:24
>To: Evan Lloyd; edk2-devel 
>(edk2-devel@lists.01.org<mailto:edk2-devel@lists.01.org>)
>Cc: Leif Lindholm; liming....@intel.com<mailto:liming....@intel.com>
>Subject: Re: [edk2] File mode problem on Github edk2-BaseTools-win32
...
>> Liming,
>> Because this is purely a permission problem in the Git repository, and .exe
>files are not amenable to patching,
>
>They are -- I think if you change the file mode bits, git will see that, and 
>will
>create a patch that has no content hunks, just the file mode changes.

A semantic quibble; ".exe files are not amenable to patching" is true, the file 
ATTRIBUTES may be.
Patches against a .exe (or .dll) should surely start alarm bells ringing for 
most people.

>
>For example, in the BaseTools/Conf/ directory, we happen have two
>template files that have gratuitous execute permissions. If I remove those
>permissions, "git diff" shows
>
...
>(The above patch is one I could submit genuinely, but I'm too lazy. :))

And somebody on the list would only object, so why bother? ;-)

>
>> I have raised a pull request on https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-
>BaseTools-win32/pulls
>> This is only a minor thing, but I would deem it a great favour were you to
>accept the pull request.
>> It has me tearing my hair out, and I have little enough to begin with. :-{
>
>It is fine to send pull requests, but:
>- they should be mailed to the list (not opened on github),
>- the patches have to be reviewed first, anyway.
>
>(Speaking about the edk2 repo at least -- I realize this is a different repo.)

As you point out, this is for a different repo; provided (I think) as a 
convenience, and is ancillary to edk2.
My viewpoint is that this is a specialised aspect, of interest to very few 
people. (Does anyone else use Cygwin Git and the Win32 binaries?)
The only reason for publishing this request here was one of awareness. Most 
people will, I expect, be blissfully unconcerned.

I am happy to submit a patch though, should those responsible (Liming?) want 
that.
Until that is confirmed though, I'm assuming that the GitHub repo is a mirror 
of a Subversion original (which will not record modes), so applying a patch 
might involve a lot more work than accepting the pull request on GitHub.

Regards,
Evan

>
>Thanks
>Laszlo
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