Comment 18 for bug 415508

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 415508] Re: Content filtering breaks commit w/ merge parents

2009/8/24 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> Is the semantics of the new method clearly defined vis-a-vis content
> filters? E.g. a filter that forces all files without a #! to be
> non-executable.

I don't think content filters at the moment can change the executable
bit. It might be useful if they could. That seems to require more of
this separation of "the tree on disk" vs "the filtered tree" that I'm
talking about. I don't think this change makes it harder.

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