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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:23:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: Cygwin rsync changes (acl) permissions, even when not asked to?
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From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 24/01/2025 09:32, Mario Emmenlauer via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> There is an an issue that plagues me when using git in Cygwin.
> 
> I have two developer machines, one with Linux, and one with Windows. On
> the Windows machine, when I clone sources with git, everything works well.
> 
> However, when I then use rsync to copy changes from the Linux machine to
> Windows, the file permissions change on all files! In turn, git complains
> about a new executable permission. And chmod fails to restore the previous
> state.
> 
> Currently, the only way I found to restore a useful state, is to remove
> the whole directory, and clone again from git!
> 
> 
> Here are the details:
> I'm using rsync options --verbose --recursive --delete which in my eyes
> should not modify permissions. I clone with rsync over the already 
> existing,
> unchanged files from git, so there should be anyways no need for rsync to
> re-transfer or modify the files.
> 
> The directory in question is a subfolder on the C: drive, which is an
> NTFS-formatted NVMe. I created the parent folder as a normal user, and did
> not apply any special permissions. In fstab, I leave default Cygwin 
> options.
> 
> rsync is version 3.3.0, Cygwin is version 3.5.5-1.
> 
>  From acl checks, it seems that rsync would modify only one of the ACLs.
> The second ACL before is "COMPANY\User:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO)", and after running
> rsync is "COMPANY\User:(F)". I'm not sure what this means, but even less
> I understand why rsync performs this change?
> 

where is located this directory ?

Can you provide the cygcheck.out as attachement ?
see https://cygwin.com/problems.html

> 
> All the best,
> 
>      Mario Emmenlauer
> 


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