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

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:20 +0000, A. S. Budden 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.

I'd rather not go this route. If you know of a scenario where we record
imaginary exec bit changes, report the details so we can work out
whether we can avoid it.

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