[PATCH] [Bug 209281] Re: Windows diff apps don't understand symlinks created by Cygwin bzr diff --using

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu May 29 14:59:32 BST 2008


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Andrew Bennetts wrote:
| Ian Clatworthy wrote:
| [...]
|> A note for whomever merges this: merging the bundle applies execute bits
|> to all the files changed. I gather that's a bug related to how bzr send
|> works on Cygwin? :-(
|
| Surely that would be a bug in commit rather than send?
|
| -Andrew.
|

I believe the bug is that he did a checkout using native win32, and then
committed using cygwin.

Either that or he did the checkout on Fat32, which can't represent the bits the
same as NTFS.

So we'll need to make sure to revert the files back to the correct executable
bits before we submit.

John
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