bug: qpush loses loses file executable permissions

[Brendan Cully]

On Thursday, 02 November 2006 at 13:24, Armando Singer wrote:
> Our developers have routinely been losing the executable bit (and
> possibly all non-default permissions) on files and propogating them to
> our remote repo. We've narrowed it down to qpush:
...snip...
> It it ok if I log a bug for this, as well as the qpush bug with empty
> files? These are pretty major for us because we are relying on MQ
> (perhaps prematurely).

Turning on git diff format should solve both of these problems. I
doubt plain diff format will ever handle these cases.