Re: [Msys2-users] Msys2 bzr changes execute bit on script files.

[Wayne S. <sta...@ve...>]

On 12/24/2014 5:43 PM, David Macek wrote:
> On 22. 12. 2014 19:02, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I've run into an issue with the msys2 version of bzr.  It appears to be
>> changing the execute bit on certain scripts in the kicad source repo.
> 
>> When I run bzr revert and check the status branch with the native
>> version of bzr, it appears that the changes are indeed reverted.
>> However, when I run the msys2 version of bzr status, I get the message
>> above and the native version of bzr status confirms that the execute
>> bits have been modified.  Should I file a bug report?  Has anyone else
>> seen this?
> 
> I see similar problems with MSYS2 git vs. MsysGit. I don't think Cygwin/MSYS2 is very focused on preserving execute bits (or any other POSIX permissions, to be honest), they just don't map well to NTFS ACLs.
> 
> I suggest looking for a configuration option that would direct bzr to ignore permissions or switching to native bzr for the time being. Having a mingw (i.e. native) bzr package would help, but that needs some work and is not much of a priority (see https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/271).
> 

I didn't find a bzr config setting for preserving execute bits between
platforms, only eols.  The problem with the native bzr is that it fails
when running makepkg-mingw.  I could always install msys2 bzr when I
need to run makepkg-mingw and then remove it.  Not desirable but workable.