Specifying file permissions for memfilectx

[Augie Fackler]

On Sep 11, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Ray Ruvinskiy wrote:

> So it is impossible to create a read-only file with memfilectx? How
> are permissions preserved for normal files, then?

Mercurial doesn't store the read or write bit internally - all files get checked out as 0644 or 0755.

What's your use case for wanting a file to be checked out as readonly?

> Ray
> 
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Ray Ruvinskiy wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to specify permissions for files created with
>>> memfilectx? What within Mercurial keeps track of the permissions?
>> 
>> The only permission Mercurial tracks is the executable flag, which is set by passing 'x' as the flags argument to a memfilectx in the filectxfn callback.
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ray
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