Use Git patch format by default in Mercurial 3

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 22:06 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Tony Mechelynck
> <antoine.mechelynck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13/02/14 16:03, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi again,
> >>
> >> It is an annoyance to remember about git format
> >> every time, and in particular MQ doesn't preserve
> >> file modes because of that.
> >>
> >> It would be a great relief to see next major HG
> >> version coming with extended patch format
> >> support with git=False option.
> >>
> >> I am on Windows, I need to make file executable
> >> and I don't see a way to do this. I thought that
> >> MQ will help, but it doesn't.
> >>
> >
> > There is a config setting for that.
> 
> Yes. I mentioned it. However, this request is to make it
> to default for Mercurial 3, because current default
> results in information loss for unaware users.

Believe it or not, your proposal is not new. Please familiarize yourself
with the list archives and maybe spend a few hours (weeks?) reading the
last 8 years of discussion on this topic so we don't have to re-enter it
yet again on the ground floor.

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