hg to track file permission

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Sep 16 12:05:21 CDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:15:40PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Can i change then file permission of a file tracked by mercurial and
> generate a diff that can be applied to a different repository ?

a) diffs don't contain permission info
b) Mercurial only tracks the execute bit

But you can use hg bundle/unbundle to transmit exact changes
(including executable info, renames, and binary files) from one repo
to another.

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