[PATCH] posix: add configuration option to ignore execution mode changes (issue3301)

[A. S. Budden]

On 2 March 2012 12:25, Angel Ezquerra Moreu <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:20 PM, A. S. Budden <abudden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User A. S. Budden <abudden at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1330690534 0
>> # Node ID 105fae68f78292cebd41e118bc68b24c171fa553
>> # Parent  85db991780b7b86913c3e29a5fe7ef25ab5ee93c
>> posix: add configuration option to ignore execution mode changes (issue3301)
>>
>> Using a posix version of Mercurial on a filesystem (such as FAT)
>> without support for the executable bit can result in Mercurial
>> erroneously reporting/committing executable bit changes.
>>
>> This patch adds an 'ignoreexec' option to the 'ui' field in hgrc
>> to allow a user to make the posix version act like the Windows
>> version and ignore execution mode changes.  This is roughly
>> equivalent to Git's core.filemode option.
>
> I find the setting name "ui.ignoreexec" a bit unclear, particularly
> the fact that it stems directly from the ui section. Also it is not
> clear what sort of "exec" you are ignoring.

Fair enough.

> Instead, maybe it could be called "ui.commit.ignoreexecbit"?

That's certainly easy to change... I'm not sure about the 'ui.commit'
bit though: it affects 'hg st' as well as 'hg commit': would it be
better as 'ui.ignoreexecbit'?

Al