[issue1149] symlinks support on non-symlink fs broken

[Dov Feldstern]

New submission from Dov Feldstern <dfeldstern at fastimap.com>:

Cloning a repo containing symlinks to a non-symlink-capable filesystem aborts
with message:
abort: Operation not permitted

bisect finds the following:

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   5703:14789f30ac11
user:        Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
date:        Thu Dec 27 22:27:47 2007 -0600
summary:     wwrite: simplify with util.set_flags

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messages: 6130
nosy: dov
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: symlinks support on non-symlink fs broken

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