Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> On May 2, 2008, at 2:39 AM, mabshoff wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 29, 7:14 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, mabshoff
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've made a trac ticket for this, since it seems to have got stalled:
>>>
>>>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3052
>>>
>>> William
>> Robert,
>>
>> I have come across a case that might cause some trouble: If you change
>> the permissions on a file you need to make a mercurial checking since
>> hg claims the repo has been changed, which is true. But export that
>> changeset and it  is empty. GIT handles renames and permission changes
>> and also prints those status changes in the log. So, does hg do
>> anything about those changes internally and is it just the log that is
>> insufficient? In the end it will not matter much since we can just add
>> a list of files whose permissions have to be changed and restore them
>> if it causes trouble. In case of spkg-install & friends for example
>> that is automatically taken care of by first making the scripts
>> executable before they are being run by sage-$FOO.
> 
> Yep, that is one of the things I've noticed. The patch comment is  
> insufficient in this case.


Can the git-style diffs somehow help?

hg diff --git

Jason


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