Setting the executable bit on files in Mercurial

Question

I've seen it mentioned that mercurial stores the executable bit on files, but cannot find out how to do it. I'm looking for functionality analogous to svn ps svn:executable '' TARGET.

Answer 1

Set (or unset) the executable bit on the file, and then hg will mark it as modified. Commit it.

You will need to enable git-style diffs to see the modes in diff output, but it's still there regardless.