Setting Mercurial's execute bit on Windows

Question

I work on a Mercurial repository that is checked out onto an Unix filesystem such as ext3 on some machines, and FAT32 on others.

In Subversion, I can set the svn:executa

Answer 1

For Windows you need to create a patch file and then apply it, like Ry4an has said, but with the --bypass argument to hg import. This could be done by creating a Powershell script file called SetFileExecutable.ps1 with the text below inside it

param (
  [String]$comment = "+execbit",
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$filePathRelativeTo,
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$repositoryRoot
)

if( Test-Path -Path "$($repositoryRoot)\.hg" -PathType Container )
{
  if( Test-Path -Path "$($repositoryRoot)\$($filePathRelativeTo)" -PathType Leaf )
  {
    $filePathRelativeTo = $filePathRelativeTo.Replace( '\', '/' )

    $diff = "$comment" + [System.Environment]::NewLine +
      [System.Environment]::NewLine +
      "diff --git a/$filePathRelativeTo b/$filePathRelativeTo" + [System.Environment]::NewLine +
      "old mode 100644" + [System.Environment]::NewLine +
      "new mode 100755"

    Push-Location
    cd $repositoryRoot
    $diff | Out-File -Encoding 'utf8' $env:tmp\exebit.diff
    hg import --bypass -m "$comment" $env:tmp\exebit.diff
    Pop-Location
  }
  else
  {
    Write-Host "filePathRelativeTo must the location of a file relative to repositoryRoot"
  }
}
else
{
  Write-Host "repositoryRoot must be the location of the .hg folder"
}

execute it as follows:

.\SetFileExecutable.ps1" -comment "Marking file as executable" -filePathRelativeTo mvnw -repositoryRoot "c:\myrepo"

The uses the solution provided by Matt Harbison in Mercurial's Bugzilla