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

[Yuya Nishihara]

Steve Borho wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I thought it's good to utilize Mercurial's code as possible.

If the change to handle "hidden" attr seems complicated for Mercurial,
I'll patch it on TortoiseHg side.

Yuya,