Thanks Adrian, I'll test this on Monday when I'm back at work. My anti-virus is AVG Free, but the entire dev folder is excluded from scanning.
I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit, if that's any use. John On 2 Apr 2011, at 12:58, "Adrian Buehlmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-04-02 13:20, John Sparrow wrote: >> I was just committing a changeset using v2.0.3 (64 bit windows) and it >> magically created a file called 'hg-checkexec-3bkuzk' in my working copy >> root! Anyone know why?? > > Mercurial tries to find out if the filesystem supports executable flags, > which Mercurial tracks. > > That file is a temporary testfile, it should have been deleted. > > You can trigger the test manually by doing (Windows 7): > > $ hg debugfsinfo > exec: no > symlink: no > case-sensitive: no > > On Ubuntu Linux: > > adi@ubuntu1:~$ hg debugfsinfo > exec: yes > symlink: yes > case-sensitive: yes > > Are you running a virus scanner? If yes, what is the product name? (just > for my secret statistics). > > Virus scanners holding files open might block file deletion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
