On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/2 Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net>: > > could be removed if anyone fixes hg. > > from the way the mercurial guys go on about it, > it sounds like the fix might not be trivial. > it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it > seems to be something of a religious issue with them. > > hg doesn't do permissions (other than execute) either AFAIK. > > it's no substitute for tar. > > Wait, Hg can't deal with a directory with a file like ".keepme" and keep the directory!?! That's pretty silly. Or do the directories have to be 100% empty for this to work?