Comment 3 for bug 119178

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 119178] Re: Bazaar filesystem handling confused by Cygwin

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John A Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Oh, and of course it would be better if we detected x-bit support by
>> filesystem type, not by platform.
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> Actually Cygwin bzr *does* support setting the executable bit. I think the
> problem is that if you do a checkout on cygwin, and then a status with win32
> native, we would have a problem.

Oh, and it actually sounds like he did a checkout using win32 native, and then
did 'bzr status' in cygwin, since that would cause all of the X-bits to become set.

He could do "cygwin-bzr revert" which should fix everything.

John
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