How usable is Bazaar on Windows?

[John Whitley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 4) If you want to control x-bit in the tree you need my plugin x_bit
>
> This is only needed if you need to change the executable bit from a
> windows machine. Though because Windows doesn't support/do anything  
> with
> the executable bit, I'm not sure what the use case is.

Windows does indeed support and do things with the executable bit.   
On NT-based systems (e.g. XP, Vista, etc.), exe's will fail to start,  
and more insidiously, present DLLs will fail to load.  I've had to  
deal with this in CVS for some time now, as occasionally a Windows  
(or Cygwin?) CVS client will add a file to a *nix CVS server without  
the x-bit set... meaning that new checkouts with the affected  
binaries are horked.

- -- John




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