'hg diff' writing temp files to CWD

[Benoit Boissinot]

On 9/25/07, Jens Alfke <jens at mooseyard.com> wrote:
>
> On 24 Sep '07, at 11:00 PM, I wrote:
>
> > The "hg diff" subcommand seems to use the current working directory
> > as  a location for temporary files. This results in [momentary]
> > filesystem  changes in the repository.
>
> It's actually not the CWD, it's always the root of the repo. So I
> can't work around this by changing the CWD before issuing "hg diff --
> repository".
>

It's the checkexec function that is trying to see of the filesystem
support x-bit or not.

regards,

Benoit