Can Mercurial be made to preserve file permissions?

Question

I\'ve seen a number of blog posts, and have experienced for myself, that Mercurial does not preserve the permissions on files pushed from one repo to another. Does anyone know

Answer 1

It is not good idea to store permissions in VCS. However, Mercurial supports "executable" flag (that is not the same as permissions, although in Unix executable flag is part of permissions).