hg status issue on Windows with network servers
TK Soh
teekaysoh at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 23:43:39 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
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> 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?
hg: unknown command 'debugfs'
Using 0.9.5.
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