mercurial and cygwin permissions

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 00:23 +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Mojmír Svoboda wrote, On 10/18/2012 04:32 PM:
> > Hello Everybody,
> >
> > I wonder why Mercurial sets +x bit on my files? Imho when
> > commiting, or merging I'm not sure exactly.
> > I always change them back to rw-rw-r-- and the +x pops
> > back every time.
> > But why? And what to do about that?
> >
> > I am working on CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 and use Mercurial from
> > Tortoisehg, not the one from Cygwin. Or perhaps it's a
> > question for TortoiseHg developpers?
> 
> It would be better if could describe the problem interms of pure 
> Mercurial when posting to this list and post TortoiseHg questions to 
> their list. But in this case I am sure you would see the same when using 
> plain Mercurial.
> 
> Windows do not have execute bits and Mercurial do not set execute bits 
> on windows. What you see as execute bit is probably cygwins 
> interpretation of windows ACLs. Know your shell.

Related:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3302
http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/95e45abe7e8e

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