hg status issue on Windows with network servers

[TK Soh]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:43 PM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 09:42 +0000, TK Soh wrote:
>  >  > We recently added a netapp file server that serve both Unix (NFS) and
>  >  > Windows (CIFS) users. Naturally, I use Mercurial on both platforms.
>  >  >
>  >  > I mapped the server on XP (SP2) to drive X:, open a cmd window in a
>  >  > repo that has been reported clean by 'hg st' on Unix (the repo has
>  >  > been created and maintained on Unix), and entered 'hg st' command,
>  >  > then a list of files showed up as being modified, while 'hg diff
>  >  > --git' give an empty output. It turns out that these files have had
>  >  > their executable permission bits enabled.
>  >  >
>  >  > I was later informed by our sys admin that CIFS does not support the
>  >  > 'x' bits. Apparently Hg on Windows is not able to cope with this issue
>  >  > and reported the x'ed files as being modified.
>  >  >
>  >  > I wonder if this may be caused by an issue within Hg, and hopeful one
>  >  > with possible workaround?
>  >
>  >  What does hg debugfs say?
>
>  hg: unknown command 'debugfs'
>
>  Using 0.9.5.
>

Tried again with tip:

exec: no
symlink: no
case-sensitive: no