Set your name and email for your commit messages
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]
Exclude git tracking UNIX file permissions: Unix file permissions modes (755=rwxrw_rw_, 644=rw_r__r__) - the old mode included the +x (executable) flag, the new mode doesn't. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=164