====== fixing cygwin filemode changes ======
** UPDATE **
This may have been a Vim issue for me.  After modifying a file and saving in Win32 Vim, the filemode was changed and git would say there was a change.  See :help backupcopy in vim for more info.  The fix is to add this to your .vimrc:<code>
:set backupcopy=yes
</code>

If something else causes this that you can't control, you can tell git to ignore these changes with this:<code>
git repo-config core.fileMode false
</code>

===== External Links =====
  * http://blog.philhersh.com/weblog/2009/09/git-on-windows.html
  * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/47472