Mercurial loses 'executable' status of files

[Jon Ribbens]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 02:17:16PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately it's the most recent version in Ubuntu LTS.