hg status issue on Windows with network servers

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 09:42 +0000, TK Soh wrote:
> We recently added a netapp file server that serve both Unix (NFS) and
> Windows (CIFS) users. Naturally, I use Mercurial on both platforms.
> 
> I mapped the server on XP (SP2) to drive X:, open a cmd window in a
> repo that has been reported clean by 'hg st' on Unix (the repo has
> been created and maintained on Unix), and entered 'hg st' command,
> then a list of files showed up as being modified, while 'hg diff
> --git' give an empty output. It turns out that these files have had
> their executable permission bits enabled.
> 
> I was later informed by our sys admin that CIFS does not support the
> 'x' bits. Apparently Hg on Windows is not able to cope with this issue
> and reported the x'ed files as being modified.
> 
> I wonder if this may be caused by an issue within Hg, and hopeful one
> with possible workaround?

What does hg debugfs say?

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