[Bug 3914] New: Cannot use mercurial on NTFS partition on Linux without root

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http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3914

          Priority: normal
            Bug ID: 3914
                CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
          Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
           Summary: Cannot use mercurial on NTFS partition on Linux
                    without root
          Severity: bug
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: samduke474 at gmail.com
          Hardware: PC
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
           Version: unspecified
         Component: Mercurial
           Product: Mercurial

I am trying to create an hg repository inside this directory:

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Apr 28 19:51 yr4proj

hg init generates the following error:

abort: Operation not permitted: /media/sam/Docs/..,/yr4proj/.hg/requires

Using sudo, however, allows the repository to successfully created.

It is impossible to chown the directory to my user due to the file permission
on NTFS.

Perhaps mercurial always needs to run as root on an ntfs partition?

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