Mercurial loses 'executable' status of files

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 19:15 +0100, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> I know that Mercurial is not supposed to store file permissions.
> However I am under the impression that it *is* supposed to store
> 'executable' status. My problem is that it doesn't:
> 
> $ hg version | head -1
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.4.3)

We've made something like 3000 bug fixes since then, which means it's
counterproductive for us to even look at bug reports for software that
old. Please upgrade.

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