[PATCH 0 of 2] make util.atomictempfile more convenient

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 20:17 +0900, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
>> First patch makes mode and createmode of atomictempfile()
>> optional.
>>
>> Second patch add the ability to copy extra file attributes
>> on Windows. Mostly it's for "hidden" flag.
>
> Why are you using the hidden flag?

I think that was my exact initial response.

http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/issue/240/unable-to-write-to-configuration-file-if-mercurialini-is

It seems users like to hide their Mercurial.ini, .hgignore and similar
files.  We have tools that update those files, and those tools use
atomictempfile().

We could handle this entirely on our side, but it seemed friendlier to
add this capability to the mercurial class.

-- 
Steve Borho