2012/4/16 Eric J. Holtman <[email protected]>

> I've scanned through the archives and seen some pointers
> to this, but no real solution.
>
> If I have a repo with a simple text file in it, and clone
> it somewhere using 'hg clone' from cygwin's bash shell,
> the files show up (as I would expect) with mode bits 644.
>

If I do the same clone from tortoisehg, they show up as 755.
>

Maybe you use cygwin's hg, but TortoiseHg isn't.


> If I try to use work in the same directory, flipping back
> and forth from tortoisehg to cygwin hg, I get into states
> where cygwin thinks a file is different (because it has
> different mode bits), but nothing has really changed.
>
> Is there any way to get tortoise to play well with cygwin,
> or and I just out-of-luck?
>

If you can build PyQt under cygwin, it may be possible to run
TortoiseHg with cygwin's Python. But I think it will be pretty hard.
Instead, you can use Windows' hg (or wait Mercurial 2.2) to ignores
executable bit.

 http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue3301

Regards,
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