hg status issue on Windows with network servers

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Mar 10 19:26:31 CDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 23:43 +0000, TK Soh wrote:
> 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.

Use tip, please. The exec detection has also changed.

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